Conor Oberst Quotes
It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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People don't get my sense of humour.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
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Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
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Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.
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It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
