Adam McKay Quotes

I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Imagination
  • Thought
  • Cats

• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Coffee

• Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Thought

• I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Long
  • City
  • Football

• I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

  

  Larry King
  • Thought
  • Trouble
  • Radio

• I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Pretty
  • Training
  • Thought

• Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Day
  • Never
  • Thought

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Thought
  • Learn
  • Rome

• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Guilty

• Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Career
  • Never

• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Boy

• As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Go
  • Industrial

• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then.

  

  William Goldman
  • Mean
  • Servant
  • Loyal

• The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Action

• Work, finish, publish.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Work
  • Finish
  • Publish

• I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

  

  Adam McKay
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