Adam McKay Quotes
After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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Money is not it for me. I love to travel and take care of my kids and be around my children.
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After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
