Adam McKay Quotes

I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

Adam McKay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 17, 1968

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In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.

Jerry Yang

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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

John Crowe Ransom

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I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Meg Whitman

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The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.

John Legend

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There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

Jeffrey Kluger

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The topic of Sarah Palin has been open season to the media, entertainment industry, and club comics alike.

Steven Crowder

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Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

Robin Coste Lewis

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Without Jupiter cleaning out the early solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions. We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would probably be a gigantic crater it if wasn't for Jupiter.

Michio Kaku

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The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

Michael Moriarty

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You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

Miriam Shor

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It's not like the old competition that you had between Leno and Letterman. It's a friendly competition between Fallon and Stephen.

Jon Batiste

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