Conor Oberst Quotes
Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
Quotes to Explore
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
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Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.
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I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
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El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.
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I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.
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Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.
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You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense.
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Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
