Conan O'Brien Quotes

'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.

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• I am tone deaf.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Deaf

• I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • History

• It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

  

  Om Puri
  • Actor
  • Living
  • Significance

• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

  

  Pat Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Thought
  • Away
  • Rush

• Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Ocean

• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Truth Is

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Great
  • Why
  • Change

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
  • Couple

• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Different
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Forgiveness, she was thinking, was in some terrible, overeager way, a lack of curiosity. It was a big, powerful hose that washed everything away. She had, in effect, turned the hose on herself. "Of course I forgive you." As eager to reconcile as she has been in the schoolyard and in her first marriage too. Only to think that now she should not have been so hasty. Forgiveness was the premature end to the story. She had skipped to the last page instead of reading the book through.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Marriage
  • Story
  • Curiosity

• The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Past
  • Humanity

• A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• 'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Story
  • John Kerry
  • Shrek