Adam McKay Quotes
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.Adam McKay
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
K. Flay -
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
Halston Sage -
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
Dan Aykroyd -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
J. Irwin Miller -
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik -
I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
Gary Wright -
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
Felicity Jones -
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
Zaha Hadid -
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
Ted Nugent -
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
Damien Hirst -
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
Gary Zukav -
I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
Ira Sachs -
I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Jack Black
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Emma Goldman -
I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
Nate Diaz -
You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
Felipe VI of Spain -
My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.
Alicia Keys -
I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.
Reeve Carney -
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
Adam McKay