Conan O'Brien Quotes
It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while.
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I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.
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It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
