Conor Oberst Quotes

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

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• My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Couple

• Our responsibility is to determine whether the nominee is fit for the position ... and whether the nominee, in our judgment, will serve in the national interest, ... Dr. Condoleezza Rice meets that standard at least and much more.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Responsibility
  • Interest
  • Judgment

• Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Reality
  • Miracles
  • Middle East

• Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Worship
  • Performed

• Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Computers

• My view is my entire life has been shaped by giving when I didn't have it. Some idiot who's wealthy and doesn't give, they'll rot in their own selfishness. I'm not worried about them. What I'm really interested in is the day-to-day person, human beings who want to go to another level of their life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Giving
  • Humans
  • Idiot

• You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

  

  Sarah Hyland
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Kidney

• Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Home
  • Soldier
  • Ball

• I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves - might become material for art. This kind of transformation shows up a lot in 10:04 because the book tracks the transposition of fact into fiction in the New Yorker stor.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Art
  • Stories
  • Transformation

• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  

  Alan Weisman
  • Future
  • Hurricanes

• All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sorrow
  • Desires
  • All Things

• From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

  

  Richie Benaud
  • Humanity
  • Cricket
  • Boxes

• Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Me
  • Never
  • Jail

• Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • God
  • Evil
  • Absence

• A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Imperfect
  • Carpet
  • Blunt