Conor Oberst Quotes

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.

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• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • United States
  • Greatest

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Asian
  • Barbie

• I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Humor
  • Characters
  • Intimacy

• My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.

  

  Kate Brown
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  • Class
  • Size

• I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Riding

• Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Old
  • Looking
  • Glass

• I have always done work to which my heart says yes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Garden

• I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Think
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  • Budget

• MIRRORMENTBirds are flowers flyingand flowers perched birds.

  

  A. R. Ammons

• For the first time in sixty years, the priests, the old aristocracy and the people met in a common sentiment-a feeling of revenge, it is true, and not of affection ; but even that is a great thing in politics, where a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
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  • Great

• Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

  

  Alexis Ohanian

• My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

  

  Benjamin Walker
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• I got to Arizona in 1980, before the Cardinals, Diamondbacks and Coyotes. The sun rose and set with the Phoenix Suns, and it wasn't very spectacular. But I became a loyal fan and went to a lot of games.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Sun
  • Rose
  • Phoenix

• The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.

  

  Amity Shlaes
  • Reality
  • Perception

• Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Separation

• As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
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• I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Life
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  • Done

• I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes