Adam McKay Quotes
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
Quotes to Explore
-
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
-
Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
-
When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
-
If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
-
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
-
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
-
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
-
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
-
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
-
I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
-
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
-
If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
-
The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
-
If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
-
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
-
My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
-
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
-
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
-
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
-
For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
-
The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
-
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
