Conan O'Brien Quotes

Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

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• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

  

  Karen Handel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Yourself
  • Forgiveness

• The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Fiction

• The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Why
  • Brother
  • Stupid

• Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reach
  • Sweetness
  • Peak

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • God
  • Rights
  • Capitalism

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Help
  • Support

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Thinks

• I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

  

  Lonny Price
  • People

• The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'

  

  Chris Isaak
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Records
  • Hobbies
  • Collecting

• Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

  

  Conan O'Brien
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