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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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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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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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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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 feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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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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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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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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Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
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The people who are doing really well and who are getting stopped in airports are the people who are going to say the more outrageous things and get on TV and state their opinion on a regular basis.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.
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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.
