Conor Oberst Quotes

When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great.

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Tax
  • Benefit

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Live
  • Positive

• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Handle

• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Brave
  • Cat
  • Pet

• I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Myself

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• 'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Military

• We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • You

• I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.

  

  Iman
  • Been
  • Muse
  • Mr

• My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • People
  • Together
  • Opinion

• We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

  

  Major Owens
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • End

• When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • Hope
  • Small

• Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Art
  • Running

• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Long
  • Easy
  • Doors

• I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Book
  • Kids

• However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

  

  James Randi
  • Believe

• When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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