Conor Oberst Quotes

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

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• In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Business
  • You
  • Opportunity

• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Business
  • Find
  • Act

• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Law
  • Community
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• I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Heart
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• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • She
  • Fall
  • Look

• While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • War
  • Fighting

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Experience
  • Unique
  • Actor

• So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Want
  • Career
  • Comedy

• Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Said

• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Training
  • Nobody
  • Coach

• I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Home
  • Summer
  • Down

• I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Why
  • Me

• Israel will not get everything it asks for...I firmly believe that the actions that Israel's government has taken over the past several years - the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalization of outposts, land seizures - they're moving us, and, more importantly, they're moving Israel in the wrong direction

  

  Joe Biden
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Moving

• A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Bad
  • Approach
  • Intention

• Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Star
  • Look
  • Blockbuster

• Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Nature
  • Chess
  • Goddess

• My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Sometimes