Adam McKay Quotes
I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.Adam McKay
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
Barton Gellman -
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
Laura Linney -
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
Aaron Koblin -
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
Ted Hughes -
All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
Dana Plato
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
Oscar Isaac -
President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
Foster Friess -
We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
Gary Locke -
I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
T. Boone Pickens -
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins -
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
Ed Royce -
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
Malala Yousafzai -
My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
Valerie June -
It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
Carice van Houten
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I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.
Bernie Sanders -
I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
Jack Kirby -
I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.
Marilynne Robinson -
I believe with baking there is a certain nostalgic fix.
James William Middleton -
I've been your slave Ever since I've been your babe But before I be your dog I'll see you in your grave.
Eleanora Fagan -
I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
Adam McKay