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.
ADAM MCKAYIn 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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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 always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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