Conan O'Brien Quotes
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.
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I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
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The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. … The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
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I'm here to play certain characters and give them a voice that they might not have had. That's my job, and like it or not, that's what I'm here to do.
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Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.
