Adam McKay Quotes
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
