Conor Oberst Quotes

Well, I could have been a famous singerIf I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded betterLet's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!

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• To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you might have worked with it or you personally know, it's cool; it's awesome to sit back and say I know that guy because you're more of a fan of that game and that person.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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  • Game
  • Cool

• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
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• My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.

  

  Malachi Throne
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  • Good
  • She

• People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

  

  Laura Harrier
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  • Growing

• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Great

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
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  • Education

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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  • Children
  • Talk

• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
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  • Taxes

• My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

  

  Zendaya
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  • Mom
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• Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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  • Mom

• I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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  • Time
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• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
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  • Family
  • Funny

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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  • Christian
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• I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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  • Up
  • Knowledge

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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  • Play
  • Enough

• My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

  

  Queen Latifah
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  • Friends
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• I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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  • Want
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• My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
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• I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.

  

  Jools Holland
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  • Up
  • Family

• We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Building

• Each consumer has the power of their wallet and their voice. They can exercise that.

  

  David Droga
  • Power
  • Exercise

• Well, I could have been a famous singerIf I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded betterLet's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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