Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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.
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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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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But 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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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