Conor Oberst Quotes
I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.
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Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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I'm a terrible procrastinator.
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There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
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And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
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'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'
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Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.
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But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.
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America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.
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Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.
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Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research.
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I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.
