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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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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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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If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
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I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.
