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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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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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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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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You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
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I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Casi siempre es el miedo de ser nosotros lo que nos lleva delante del espejo.
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It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
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If I loved you, well that's my fault
