Conor Oberst Quotes
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
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I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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That's me, man - I'm a lover not a fighter.
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I had bags of energy as a kid.
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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The first set I remember was 'Ghostbusters.' It was a scene in which the street erupted. I remember even at seven years old thinking, 'Wow, if you direct a movie, you can break the streets of New York.'
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I am demanding.
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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And I sing and sing of awful thingsThe pleasure that my sadness brings.
