Conor Oberst Quotes

But, I was as helpless as a chess piece when I was lifted up by someone's hand And delivered from the corner my enemies had got me in But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell that is myself

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Honor
  • New
  • Ring

• I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Field
  • United
  • Off

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Age
  • Lazy
  • Three

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Enemy
  • Hands
  • Direction

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Government
  • Never

• The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Peace

• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Job
  • Something
  • Irish

• L.A.'s always been good to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Good
  • Me
  • Always

• Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Think
  • Night
  • Quality

• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fame

• I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Heart

• But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Great
  • Country
  • Education

• I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Family
  • Door
  • Profound

• To this day, I can't watch my own sex scenes.

  

  Jenna Jameson
  • Sex

• Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Help
  • Sometimes
  • Helping

• But, I was as helpless as a chess piece when I was lifted up by someone's hand And delivered from the corner my enemies had got me in But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell that is myself

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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