Conor Oberst Quotes
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits.
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I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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The world's become a little too mean.
