Adam McKay Quotes
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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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.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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I try to win every tournament.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.
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I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
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The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
