Adam McKay Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
