Conor Oberst Quotes
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No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
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Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
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Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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I'm very bullish on the streetcar.
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The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
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I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.
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Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet's best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace of its own.
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If I loved you, well that's my fault
