Conor Oberst Quotes
I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.
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I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar.
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I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.
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I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.
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I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.
