Conan O'Brien Quotes
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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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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I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.
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We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
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Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
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It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax. So in 1913, they put in the income tax. It was incredibly popular. The tax we love to hate today.
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If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.
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I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
