Conor Oberst Quotes
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.
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I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
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We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'
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I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
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I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive.
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.
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When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.
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Pressure from Thomas off the edge...Eli Manning...STAYS ON HIS FEET...airs it out down the field...it is...caught by Tyree!
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
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Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.
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It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.
