Conor Oberst Quotes

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

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• Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Future
  • Action
  • Design

• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Family
  • Rock

• I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Myself

• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• I eat next to nothing.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nothing
  • Next
  • Eat

• I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Existence
  • Lives
  • Economics

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • America
  • Land

• Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Strong
  • Physically

• Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Political
  • Democrat
  • Orientation

• I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Ideas

• Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hope

• Be not false about the past.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Past

• Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

  

  Bernard Law Montgomery
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Discipline

• Losing has nothing to do with geography.

  

  Chuck Noll

• I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

  

  Mario Balotelli

• My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Grandmother

• The cold was an enemy, yet it kept the tribes strong. The old did not suffer for long in such bitter winters. The weakling children perished quickly. His son would not be one of those.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Strong
  • Enemy
  • Cold

• Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

  

  Jerry Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

  

  W. A. Mathieu
  • Music
  • Musician
  • Healing

• I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.

  

  Eugenia Price
  • Habits
  • Conversion
  • Spiritual Life

• I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Memories
  • Depression
  • Drink