Conor Oberst Quotes
For a song I was boughtNow I lie when I talkWith a careful eye on the cue card.Onto a stage I was pushed,With my sorrow well rehearsed.So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
Karen Mills -
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
Kate Moss -
Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
Sam Brownback -
You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
Garth Ennis -
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Otto von Bismarck -
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
Yao Ming -
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
Dan Buettner -
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Randall Munroe -
Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
Sam Kean -
I can only control what I can control.
Ira Glass
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
M. J. Rose -
Values are more important than money.
Viktor Orban -
I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
Wayne Brady -
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Earl Nightingale -
I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
Harrison Birtwistle
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When I get the questions, I answer what I can answer. If they ask me about the match, I cannot really say that I like eating bananas.
Caroline Wozniacki -
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
Jerry Saltz -
People tell me they use my song 'Coming Home' at their weddings. My audience seems to range from young to old, and it's cool when you really get to connect with all different people.
Leon Bridges -
With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
Kaitlin Olson -
For a song I was boughtNow I lie when I talkWith a careful eye on the cue card.Onto a stage I was pushed,With my sorrow well rehearsed.So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes