Conan O'Brien Quotes
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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There is no one true church.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.
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Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
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I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've also made movies with smaller budgets.
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What we did with 'Tai Chi Zero' and 'Tai Chi Hero' was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.
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Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.
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Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.
