There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
ADAM MCKAYWhite-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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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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The 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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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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