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Conor O Brien Inspirational Quotes (17)

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I just think I'm a narcissist, really! I guess when I write albums, they take a huge amount of time out of my life and I'm aware of not using the same processes as I did with the last one, or else I'd get really bored and wouldn't feel inspired.
Conor O'Brien
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When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build up layers. But with the band, it turned out more watercolor: you're leaving white bits of paper exposed, so that nothing is too overworked.
Conor O'Brien
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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It took a little time to get where I wanted. It took a little time to get free. It took a little time to be honest. It took a little time to be me.
Conor O'Brien
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I think for me, the only depressing music is music that doesn't give credence to those kinds of feelings, music that's just written for money or commercial reasons. Sad music can be the most uplifting thing in the world.
Conor O'Brien
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I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song come out in a subconscious way, but then you might have to crack it to a certain degree, where you might use parts of your brain that you don't normally use.
Conor O'Brien
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British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.
Conor O'Brien
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail... You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
Conor Cruise O'Brien