Adam McKay Quotes
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I have a great office.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.
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They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although I'm in favor of both. It's shelter that concerns me, and it's nice to be doing something people are interested in.
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I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.
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I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
