Conan O'Brien Quotes
I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.
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The world is always in movement.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
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I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.
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The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
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I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.
