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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.
Adam McKay
Government
Big
Lobbyists
Corporations
Press
Worthless
Purchase
Crush
Leaving
American
Screwed
Created
Washington
Media
Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
Adam McKay
Money
Power
Corporations
Press
Rise
Built
Cheney
Were
Dick Cheney
Bush
Tons
Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.
Adam McKay
Word
Internet
Mouth
Press
Only
Left
Word-Of-Mouth
All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
Adam McKay
Vote
Our
Powerful
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
Adam McKay
Teacher
Libraries
Rather
Parks
California
Schwarzenegger
Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Salaries
Than
Taxes
Cut
Billionaires
Many
Millionaires
Raise
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
Adam McKay
You
Looking
Past
Every
Guard
Everything
Signal
Security
Feed
Leading
Know
Safe
Fake
Hallway
How
Diamonds
Cameras
Quiet
Get
Movie
Screens
Jamming
Notice
Show
Bogus
Switching
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
Adam McKay
Truth
Broken
Truth Is
Spend
Must
Find
Computer
Crucial
Facts
Outside
Hour
Person
America
Order
Information
Perspectives
Searching
Numbers
Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
Adam McKay
Distract
Spent
Backing
Only
Purpose
Fact
Obscure
Identical
Mitt
Mitt Romney
George
Been
George W
George W. Bush
Did
Romney
Bush
Agenda
Billions
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
Adam McKay
Socialism
Will
Drive
Obamacare
Fact
Like
Industry
Insurance
Insurance Industry
Private
Begin
Auto
Mandate
In Fact
Republican
Plan
Much
Billions
Hardly
After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
Adam McKay
News
Liar
Thousands
Something
Hours
Hillary
Learned
Terrorist
Coverage
After
Barack
I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
Adam McKay
Give
She
Up
Account
Brave
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Palin
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Agatha Christie
You
Yourself
Others
Never
Anything
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie
Time
Waiting
Will
Whatever
Live
Borrowed
About
Bother
Come
Inevitably
Go
Then
Next
Next Thing
Luckily
Now
Thing
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
Agatha Christie
Domestic
Quiet
Interest
Specialize
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Agatha Christie
World
Nothing
Think
Having
More
Thrilling
Than
Child
Stranger
Yours
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
Agnes Repplier
Secret
We Cannot
Laugh
About
Join
Always
Cannot
Irritation
Which
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Agnes Repplier
Democracy
Sorry
Heroic
Possibilities
Between
Ideals
Forever
Contrast
Achievements
Realities
Us
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
Agnes Repplier
Rights
World
Guardians
Mirth
Should
Thinkers
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier
Lost
Other
Complain
Would
Would-Be
He
Tourist
Tourists
Without
May
Them
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Agnes Repplier
World
Rule
Console
Sustain
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Agnes Repplier
Spring
Tea
Luxuries
Has-Been
Thousand
Civilization
Well
Said
Been
Wants
Which
Suggestive
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplier
Man
Pleasure
Fabric
Constructs
Self
He
True
His
Leisure
Really
Lives
'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death.
Aimee Carter
Life
Death
Me
Mother
My Life
Changed
Harry
Harry Potter
Ways
More
Potter
Through
Than
Get
Helped
I'm all about 'Halo 2'.
Akiva Schaffer
About
Halo
You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.
Akiva Schaffer
Time
You
People
Better
Own
Laugh
Written
Know
Learn
Because
Makes
Always
Were
Lot
Going
Scripts
Even
Actor
Funniest
With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.
Akiva Schaffer
Words
Late
Late-Night
Those
Out
Bad
Would
Since
Lot
Get
Just
Wanted
Them
Shorts
Then
Us
Let Us
Away
Night
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