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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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
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I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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I don't believe that weed is a drug. I believe its herbal medicine. I'll smoke that occasionally and I definitely back marijuana but anything harder than that, I just say no to and I encourage kids to say no to hard drugs.
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
