Conan O'Brien Quotes
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.
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Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
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Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
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Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
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The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
