Conor Oberst Quotes
We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
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I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
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He was a man of peace, a great friend. He was a man who, after 20 years of war in Lebanon, managed to rebuild it.
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I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
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People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
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We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.
