Conor Oberst Quotes
So I want to get myself attached to something bolted down,So that these winds of circumstance won't keep blowing me around.From when I land to when I leavethere is enough time to sleep and sing.I keep running around, when all I want is to lay motionless.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
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A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. 'Tell me, O Master,' he said, 'why you have come into this world.' 'To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.'
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In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.
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So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.
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So I want to get myself attached to something bolted down,So that these winds of circumstance won't keep blowing me around.From when I land to when I leavethere is enough time to sleep and sing.I keep running around, when all I want is to lay motionless.
