Tom Shadyac Quotes
If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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I'm a political conservative.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.
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I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
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I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.
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For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
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If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
