Conor Oberst Quotes

Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.

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• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Interest

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Drink

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Taken
  • Stars
  • Exist

• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nonsense

• Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• My own death threats have declined considerably.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Death
  • Own
  • My Own

• This goes to demonstrate the fact that John Howard established this inquiry in order to bring about his own absolution, not to bring about any form of accountability.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Accountability

• I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Connie Francis
  • True
  • Friend
  • Italian

• I only make movies I want to go see.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer

• My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Coffee

• Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • Good

• Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Book

• Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well, apparently someone tried to claim the Phish tour as his home office and that's not going to happen.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Home
  • Single
  • Thanks

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Road

• We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

  

  Jaime King
  • Fighting
  • Jump

• Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Powerful
  • Evil