Conor Oberst Quotes
Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
Quotes to Explore
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
S. Jay Olshansky -
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand -
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
Oliver North -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
Aaron Neville -
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Rafael Moneo -
I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
Taylor Swift -
I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
Indira Gandhi -
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
Babyface -
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler -
I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
Zeresenay Alemseged -
Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
Karen Salmansohn -
People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
Eden Hazard
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
Langston Hughes -
What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.
Cardi B -
Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes