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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

Adam McKay

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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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages
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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Cultural Elite Myself
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 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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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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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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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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