Adam McKay Quotes
I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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People work hard.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
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I tried chemo, but chemo and I didn't agree, so we didn't persist.
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.
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I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
