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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You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.
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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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When I graduated from college, I was told I could do great things and be great, but I didn't know what that meant and what it would feel like and the work that it would take.
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If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.
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My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
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Education and water should be a human right.
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I love this country. And when you are given an opportunity to help your country, in what is one of the most volatile times we've seen in a long time, there's no way I'm not going to step up to do everything I can and make us strong.
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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.
