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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

Adam McKay

I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

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