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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• 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.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Lost
  • Yourself
  • Golf

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Start
  • Agreement

• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• 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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Best
  • Bullying

• A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Win
  • Just
  • Saying

• 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.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Dream
  • You
  • Try

• If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Real
  • Facts
  • Statistics

• 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.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Kid

• I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Stress
  • Natural

• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Friends
  • Gone
  • Them

• My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Tree

• It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Day
  • Balance

• I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Rock
  • Couple

• I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.

  

  Alan Colmes

• There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • People
  • Business
  • Doubt

• To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Believe
  • Feels
  • Belief

• The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

  

  Marion Ross
  • Great
  • Professional

• 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.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Reason