Tom Shadyac Quotes
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
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I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.
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Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.
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Everybody has a line. It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs, that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.
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What matters is who we are, not who we beat.
