Conor Oberst Quotes
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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'That's So Raven' was my favorite show growing up! I loved Raven so much! That show is what made me want to be on Disney Channel!
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.
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The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
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Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life
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Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
