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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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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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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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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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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I'm not a sun person.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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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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People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.
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The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
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Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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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.
