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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.

Adam McKay

This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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