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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If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.
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I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.
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Study the hurtful patterns of your life.
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I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.
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Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.
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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.
