Adam McKay Quotes
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
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In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.
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The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
