Conan O'Brien Quotes
Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
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Ability to speak the majority language is not just important for inclusion; it is important for minorities to be able to claim their rights and entitlements.
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I want to do everything, and I don't think that's too ambitious.
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My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don't realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.
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I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.
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Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.
