Tom Shadyac Quotes
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He's seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration.
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Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.
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The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see?
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I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
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There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'. But you got a lot of tools workin' in that body: the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the lungs. You soften that up and see what happens. I lived by the body shot.
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Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.
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I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
