Adam McKay Quotes
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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It was a technical mistake on their (DEP) end.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.
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We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.
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I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
