Conan O'Brien Quotes

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

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• With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • Changing

• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Government
  • Save

• It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Death
  • Situation
  • Danger

• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Nervous

• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Thought
  • Skepticism

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Listening

• If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Love
  • Care
  • Him

• I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Careful
  • Adventures

• Just keep taking chances and having fun.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Having Fun

• It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Government
  • Economic
  • Limits

• Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Life
  • You
  • Mad

• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Industry
  • Download

• I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Long
  • Real
  • Home

• Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Water
  • Jesus

• I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • House
  • Comedy
  • Day

• If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Comedy
  • Player
  • Beginning

• If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Enlightenment

• I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Comedy
  • Point