Conor Oberst Quotes
I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
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I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine, - The orchard and the mowing fields, The lawns and gardens fine.
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I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.
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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
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I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.
