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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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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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 stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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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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It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.
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Look at this tangle of thorns.
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When you make a black-and-white movie with two people in it in 2016, you're taking a swing at something.
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I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.
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For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
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It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.
