Conor Oberst Quotes

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

Conor Oberst

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You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.

Jermaine Fowler

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Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

John Lahr

LifeAgeJoySweetYouEarly

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Jeanne Moreau

AgeMeJustWhoWho CaresCares

Filming, for me, is a way of approaching, little by little - of getting closer and closer to my subject. And that subject itself can transform, or it can remain the same.

Rithy Panh

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In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

Rory Kinnear

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Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

Jorge Ramos

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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

Dorothea Lange

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In a job negotiation, the implementation of that deal is your success that also causes the company to succeed.

Christopher Voss

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People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

Christo

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Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose of penance. What's remarkable is the extent to which penance sells among a mostly secular audience. What is there to be penitent about?

Bret Stephens

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My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.

Athol Fugard

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I ask people what they do in sales, how much money they made last year, what their cost of sales is, and they don't even know. If you don't know your numbers, you're going out of business. I don't care how good your product is.

Tilman J. Fertitta

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