Conor Oberst Quotes
I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
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I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
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I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.
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Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.
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I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.
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The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.
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I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.
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It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.
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Thursday night football should be illegal.
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Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.
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As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
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I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.
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I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding.
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I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.
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I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream
