Tom Shadyac Quotes
Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
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When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
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If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'
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I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
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My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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… why God made irreconcilable Good and the means of good.
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Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
