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Conor Oberst Quotes

I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'm getting on an airplane or the tour bus, though. I like physical things.

Conor Oberst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 15, 1980

Topics

New York Airplane New Newspaper Bus

We all have limitations. I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

Jocko Willink

Life Sports Genetics Become Right

You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.

Jeremy Grantham

You Price Risk Cheap Up Buying

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

Jean Paul Gaultier

People Reaction Normal Things Still

I think '12 Years a Slave' really helped me, as a person and as a student, to grow.

Storm Reid

Me Think Grow Student Person Slave

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

Tom Smothers

Funny Business Show Business Show

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Food Isolation Solution Way

When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are you staying this time?' because we left last time, in 1989 in Afghanistan, and we sanctioned Pakistan from 1990 to 2002. So I think it's a fair question.

Michael Mullen

Time Think You Go Fair Question

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin

Thought Artist Want Always Whatever

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

Don Lemon

Respect Great People Think Speed

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

Che Guevara

Fear Beginning End Wish Will Well

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

Christie Hefner

You Things Miss Discover Should

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

Clay Aiken

Words Think Better Doing Emotions