Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
ADAM MCKAYThe crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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 would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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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