Conor Oberst Quotes
We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
Quotes to Explore
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.
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Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.
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Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.
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[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!
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I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.
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I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received; I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims.
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People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
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My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
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We really don't rest if we think our kids are drifting, or if we think they don't have the right work ethic. It drives us crazy. Because we ultimately want them to succeed and, until they do, we feel in some way that something is not complete.
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I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.
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Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.
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And while everybody was busy laughing, what was I doing? I was laying the foundation to what I have in place now.
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What I measure the most is the fact that we are a much more durable, sustainable company that can bob and weave with whatever we meet. And that is the true measure of success for me in terms of leadership.
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We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
