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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• 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.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Important
  • Job
  • Wealth

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Changes
  • Kill
  • Shape

• I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Know

• 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.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Nice
  • Party

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Dream
  • Heaven
  • Democracy

• I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Matter

• I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Love
  • Want
  • Times

• My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Balance
  • Philosophy

• 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.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Own
  • Birthday

• Lines 10–16

  

  W. H. Auden

• ...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Practice

• Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.

  

  Alexandre Dumas

• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • People
  • Men
  • Interesting

• If not for radio, I'd probably be working at the local supermarket doing who knows what. But after I got that first break at 16, I was not going to do anything else. I had my mind set on radio one way or another.

  

  Carl Kasell
  • Mind

• I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.

  

  Claudia Gray
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Mood

• It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'

  

  Marshall Herskovitz
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Single

• I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Help

• I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Up

• Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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