Conor Oberst Quotes

Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.

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• God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

  

  Quintilian
  • World
  • God
  • Character

• The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Scripture

• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Guy
  • Television
  • Watch

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Done
  • Man
  • Black

• I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Year
  • Run

• While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Country
  • Day
  • Veterans

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Work
  • Live
  • Night

• I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

  

  Acker Bilk
  • Enjoy
  • Still
  • Alright

• Evil report carries further than any applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Applause
  • Carries

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • City
  • Best

• I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Kids
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

  

  Maurice Denis
  • Remember
  • Painting
  • Model

• I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

  

  Ray Davies The Kinks
  • Wall

• There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Time
  • Positive

• forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

  

  Zbigniew Herbert
  • Fighting
  • Moon
  • Museums

• Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • History
  • Science
  • Education

• Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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