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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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.
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The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban of legislative or ecclesiastical censor, the best thoughts would as naturally prevail over the worst as the best seeds of the forest naturally triumph over the worst seeds.
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I always embrace the worst-case scenario.
