Conan O'Brien Quotes
Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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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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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.
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My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
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I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.
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Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.
