Conor Oberst Quotes
We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.
Quotes to Explore
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
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Like a physically beautiful but otherwise rather dull person who trades on his or her looks, Southern California swings perpetually between a profound inferiority complex and an equally profound sense of entitlement.
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Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.
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I really love a lot of Japanese music, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and this guy I got really into, Tatsuro Yamashita. When I was a little younger, I thought synthesizers meant Kraftwerk, cold, robotic, weird, Autobahn. But these guys are having a lot of fun on these things. Sometimes. Sometimes it's very somber. They could go either way.
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My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.
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A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
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We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.
