Adam McKay Quotes
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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I love cycling.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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People work hard.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.
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I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
