Conor Oberst Quotes
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
Quotes to Explore
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.
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To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
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I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
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There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.
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I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
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No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)
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There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
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To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.
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Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
