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

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• 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

• Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Hero

• The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Weird

• An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
  • Power
  • Comedy
  • Air

• The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Different
  • Crazy

• Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Up
  • Growing

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

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Comedy
  • Point