Adam McKay Quotes
In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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All my songs are where I am.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.
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The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
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Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
