Tom Shadyac Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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I never dreamt to be a princess in my life; I really dreamt to be an actress, but I dreamt of princesses on screen.
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Nobody likes being told who or what they are.
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When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.
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I remember when I got pregnant, I had several peers of mine, women, who said to me, 'Now that you're pregnant, you're probably gonna give up the music thing, right?' I was like, 'I'm not crippled. I'm just having a baby.'
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences of huge dilemmas or major decisions. If we paid attention, we'd realize that the determining incidents in our lives are ordinary things.
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I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.
