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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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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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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Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extraprocessit longe flammantia moenia mundiatque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.
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I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.
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At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
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Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.
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I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a lot of the people involved in Boston politics have big personalities, so there were all kinds of wacky people around.
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You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.
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For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.
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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.
