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.
Quotes to Explore
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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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.
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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.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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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.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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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.
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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.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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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.
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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.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.
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I will always dance in the street.
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I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.
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I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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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.
