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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I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.
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It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.
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The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
