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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We haven't been able to transform it into a discipline where you can simply and predictably engineer biological systems. It means the complexity of things we can make and can afford to make are quite limited.
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We always honor our people when they die; we've got to honor them while we're still alive.
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
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I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.
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I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
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Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
