Conor Oberst Quotes
I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.
Quotes to Explore
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis
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Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.
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The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
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I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.
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Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.
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You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.
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I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.
