Conor Oberst Quotes
So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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I find Hollywood really toxic.
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I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought about as a kid but then remembered as a parent.
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As I get older, I think about the quality of my life and a balanced way to enjoy that. That's true wellness - being well from inside out.
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Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.
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So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared
