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.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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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.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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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.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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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.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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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.
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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.
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In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.
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MIRRORMENTBirds are flowers flyingand flowers perched birds.
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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.
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Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.
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My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
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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.
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I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.
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You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.
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Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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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.
