Conor Oberst Quotes
I want to be the surgeon who cuts you openWho fixes all of life's mistakesI want to be the house that you were raised inThe only place where you feel safe.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
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From now on, I will work with other people's material if it fits where I want to go.
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What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.
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I want to be the surgeon who cuts you openWho fixes all of life's mistakesI want to be the house that you were raised inThe only place where you feel safe.
