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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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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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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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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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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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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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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Boxed Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
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Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.
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When you are insecure, it turns people off. To spend money, people have to give away a part of their security. When they make the transfer of money to you, they have to feel solid; they have to feel they are getting something that will make them more, because they are paying out and becoming less right now. If you are solid and contained and secure, it helps them feel solid, so they transfer their cash more readily.
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Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
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I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
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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.
