Conor Oberst Quotes

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

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• I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
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• They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

  

  Imran Khan
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• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
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• If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

  

  Kate Moss
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• As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.

  

  Sam Smith
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• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

  

  LaToya London
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• The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
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• Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

  

  Harold Bloom
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• Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

  

  Miranda Lambert
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• Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

  

  Antonio Banderas
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• It's easy to look at where your pieces are now and place the next one nearby.

  

  Masayoshi Son

• I do most of the cooking in my head.

  

  Alain Ducasse
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• I'm not really tough.

  

  Jason Momoa

• So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.

  

  Michelle Dean
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• Drake's home is its own fantasia, a single-level ranch that sprawls in various wings over 7,500 square feet, from the game room to the gym to Drake's master bedroom with Jacuzzi. The pool is like a scene out of Waterworld, with a bar inside a grotto, waterfalls, and a slide that drops thirty feet through the rock.

  

  Michael Paterniti
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• I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Sometimes