Conor Oberst Quotes
Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
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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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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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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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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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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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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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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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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
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If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
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Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
