Conan O'Brien Quotes
In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.
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I just can't fathom tweeting, and I'd rather spend my time writing a book than a blog, but I rather grudgingly agreed to a Facebook page. I had a brief, intense romance with Facebook. It's weirdly addictive, but anything that time-sucking is a danger for a writer who writes as slowly as I do. Now I post only occasionally and nothing very confessional. I think I'm carbon dating myself as I speak.
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Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion.
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Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.
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Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.
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In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.
