Conan O'Brien Quotes
If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I didn't have anything to apologize for.
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Against the flying ball no valor avails.
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As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.
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If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.
