Conor Oberst Quotes
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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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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
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So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.
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To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure.
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I always embrace the worst-case scenario.
