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've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.
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I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.
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History is as much an art as a science.
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I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.
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I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.
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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
