Conan O'Brien Quotes

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

Conan O'Brien

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• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Happens

• There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Done
  • Job
  • Know

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Nose

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Look

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Idea
  • Create
  • Kid

• If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Care
  • Smart

• By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • God
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Care
  • Body

• Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Yes

• Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

  

  Kenneth Burke
  • Men
  • Reality

• I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • God
  • Death

• Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Success
  • Learning

• My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Life
  • Great
  • Job

• Time is a very precious gift - so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Time
  • Gift

• Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Success
  • Way
  • Dirty