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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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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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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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before.
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LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.
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I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
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Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
