Conor Oberst Quotes
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
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but the one thing we do know is that there is a dead 4-year-old, and we're looking for a black Explorer and three Hispanic males, one of them described as light-complected and wearing a white cowboy hat.
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Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies. One of them is local currencies. One is regional currencies. Another is functional currencies. Another is social-purpose currencies.
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I always embrace the worst-case scenario.
