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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By putting downward pressure on interest rates, the Fed is trying to make financial conditions more accommodative - supporting asset values and lower borrowing costs for households and businesses and thus encouraging the spending that spurs job creation and a stronger recovery.
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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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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
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It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
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You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
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Ideas kill people.
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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.
