Conor Oberst Quotes
We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
Quotes to Explore
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The world is too violent right now.
Jackie Chan
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
Wayne Rooney
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
E. Joseph Cossman
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J Mascis
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
Karen DeCrow
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Orison Swett Marden
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
Ralph Bakshi
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
Barry Sternlicht
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
Mandy Moore
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
Lady Gaga
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
Katee Sackhoff
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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
Hari Kondabolu
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages.
Tavi Gevinson
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The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
Kevin Wilson
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Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
Ted Shackelford
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I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
Syd Barrett
Pink Floyd
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We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
