Adam McKay Quotes
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
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The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.
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Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
