Conan O'Brien Quotes

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

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• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
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• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
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• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
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• Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Silence
  • Mystery
  • Diffidence

• As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Me
  • Health

• I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Book
  • Period
  • Write

• William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Stop

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Love
  • Me
  • Inspired

• I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Running
  • Alone

• Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Character
  • Strong

• New York City has an integration problem.

  

  Laura Moser
  • City
  • Problem
  • New York

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Hope
  • Go
  • Got

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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  • Hear

• You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • People
  • Home
  • Feeling

• We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Amazing
  • Ignore

• Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Book
  • Game
  • Attention

• I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • People
  • Good
  • Listening

• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

  

  Eric Bristow
  • Up
  • World
  • Remember

• President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

  

  Conan O'Brien
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