Conor Oberst Quotes

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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.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• I'm a giant Beatles fan.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Fan
  • Beatles
  • Giant

• 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.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fly

• Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.

  

  Don McLean
  • Live
  • True
  • Dream

• [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.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Catholic

• Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Art
  • Humans
  • Boundaries

• Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

  

  Kate (Ma) Barker
  • Lies

• 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.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • People
  • Money
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  Matthew Henson
  • Eyes
  • Suffering
  • Snow blindness

• People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Beat
  • Bank

• 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.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • School
  • Home
  • Sports

• My life is centered around God and faith.

  

  Storm Reid
  • Life
  • God
  • Faith

• Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

  

  Rick Bayless
  • Art
  • Community
  • Growth

• Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Children
  • Ability
  • Messages

• Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Winning
  • Feminism

• We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Messages
  • Spread
  • Solidarity