Conor Oberst Quotes
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
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Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
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My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.
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I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
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I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
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Getting a movie made is a miracle... because the studios are only interested in making 'The Avengers.'
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The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
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I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
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A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get out of it. For me, because I had been a working songwriter in town, I had a collection of songs that I was ready to make into an album. At the time, I didn't realize it was becoming an album, but it was.
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We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.
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The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
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The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.
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Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.
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You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
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You can do too much and oversell your market.
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I'm always happy for work and feel absolutely lucky to be on something that has continued for a couple of seasons.
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Never bet on baseball.
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My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
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If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
