Conor Oberst Quotes

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Fighting
  • Dead
  • Heal

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Politics
  • Spring

• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Sheep

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Dark
  • Wonder

• I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Youth
  • Very
  • Involved

• Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Peace
  • Issue
  • Palestine

• Bring out the eyes.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Eyes
  • Bring
  • Out

• Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Pretty
  • Performance
  • Room

• There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Conversations
  • Opinionated

• One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Years
  • Information

• Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Bed

• He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Teach
  • Can
  • Does

• The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

  

  Jacques Delors
  • World
  • Model

• Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Long
  • Period
  • November

• My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Lost

• There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Reality
  • Fantasy
  • Fine