Tom Shadyac Quotes

Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

Tom Shadyac

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• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Why
  • Friends

• And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Balance
  • Fate

• I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Think
  • Myself

• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Effort

• I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Why
  • Game
  • Games

• We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because of our bilingual history, we'll always be speaking a special kind of English and Spanish. What we do have to do is fight for the right to use those two languages in the way that it serves us. Nuevo-mexicanos have done it very well for hundreds of years, inventing words where they don't have them. I think the future of our language is where we claim our bilingualism for its utility.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • History

• It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991.

  

  Alan Kulwicki
  • Sunday
  • Saturday
  • Racing

• One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Question
  • Space
  • Weird

• There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Crazy

• God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • God
  • Growing
  • Goal

• We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Eyes

• It just works better for me to discriminate between which thoughts are mine and which come from elsewhere, before I even talk about them or express them - it helps to keep me focused on my path.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thoughts
  • Path
  • Helping

• We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Government
  • Pressure

• There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Listening

• Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?

  

  Chris Matthews
  • World
  • Protect
  • Trade

• I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

  

  Michael Carbonaro
  • Wanted
  • David

• Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Single
  • Hurt
  • Stories

• Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Kids
  • Tasks
  • Cues

• Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Decision
  • Friendship
  • Soldier

• Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Together
  • History
  • Legends

• Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Needs
  • Results
  • Currents