Conan O'Brien Quotes
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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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.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I work very hard at my game.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.
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I think reality TV for dancers has changed for the better. There are more opportunities and the platforms that we are being given are better. We have more job security and TV is allowing different levels of dance to come through to the forefront. People can now take their abilities and turn them into brands and make these top dollars.
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I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.
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I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.
