Conor Oberst Quotes
Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
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I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
