Conor Oberst Quotes

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

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• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Faith
  • Passion

• Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • Fall
  • See

• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Information
  • Profound
  • Meaning

• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Light
  • Wise

• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Lies
  • Possible

• I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Wish
  • Model

• I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Kids
  • High
  • Hands

• I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Live
  • Best
  • Thing

• When you do it yourself, you feel better.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Better
  • Yourself

• A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Hungry

• Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Living
  • Background

• A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Great
  • Change
  • Attitude

• At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Vampire

• We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Long
  • Couple
  • Stupid

• The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

  

  James Woods
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• I naturally have a really small waist.

  

  Lily James
  • Small

• I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Song

• Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Reality
  • Past

• What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • America
  • Year

• I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Goal