Conor Oberst Quotes

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Reach
  • Regardless

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Best

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Think
  • Rock

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • You
  • More
  • Build

• I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • End

• I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

  

  Farah Pahlavi
  • World
  • Different
  • Hope

• Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
  • Work
  • God
  • King

• I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Morning
  • Safari

• There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?

  

  Maggie Q
  • World
  • Deep
  • Fate

• When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

  

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