Adam McKay Quotes
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I feel secure in my life, and I'm happy with where I'm at. I realise in some ways how enchanted my life's been. I could have ended up on a bench outside Stoke station begging for money. I was one of the lucky ones.
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Right now, there could well be messages from the stars flying right through this room. Through you and me. And if we had the right receiver set up properly, we could detect them. I still get chills thinking about it.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
