Conan O'Brien Quotes
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
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You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.
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Bad language coarsens the whole quality of our life. It normalises harsh, often indecent language, which despoils our communication.
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Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.
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I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
