Conan O'Brien Quotes
Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
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That's my ultimate goal: to get people to say my name right.
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For me 'Submarine', is probably one of the most important things I've done and it will always remain the closest thing to my heart. It was an amazing experience and it really changed things for me after I'd finished filming it because of the people on it.
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Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
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Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.
