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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Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
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It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!
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To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
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Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
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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.
