Adam McKay Quotes
With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger women are attracted mainly by money. Social democratic capitalists believe that they are attracted mainly by power.
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I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
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It's really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection between you and someone else where something else can't. When music comes along, it just opens your heart a little more.
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With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
