Conor Oberst Quotes
I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death.Every city and memory we whispered 'Here is where you rest.'Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my kneesAnd I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine:'You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.'
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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It's a blessing to know that the church and the gospel are the same no matter where I go. I can find a church and know the services and feel at home there.
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In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.
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I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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I used to get really sick. I would go to the doctor with all these ailments, and they would tell me I needed to be at home. I didn't even really understand what that meant because since I was a baby, I've always been moving, moving, and then touring.
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I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death.Every city and memory we whispered 'Here is where you rest.'Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my kneesAnd I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine:'You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.'
