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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So, blind to Someone I must be.
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I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
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I don't think it matters where I came from any more.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.
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Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.
