Adam McKay Quotes

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

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• I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

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• Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
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• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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• For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
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• I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

  

  Manu Bennett
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• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

  

  Dana Delany
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• I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

  Garry Kasparov
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• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• I think often that God is guiding me.

  

  Natalia Makarova
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• When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

  

  Steve Martin
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• I've always used masks. I think it's a lot about the fact that masks often reveal a sort of subconscious element to a character. The mask is carved and given an expression or markings to reveal something, even though it's shielding the face. Even though it's hiding the face, it seems to reveal something underneath.

  

  Dave McKean
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• Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

  

  Anthony Daniels
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• I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

  

  Adam McKay
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