Conor Oberst Quotes
I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
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I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy.
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We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire - based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment. It's just the idea that we're so wasteful. I think a lot of self - identity and inner - personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
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I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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Specialization is the goal of civilization.
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I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.
