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 have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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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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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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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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I do Sierra Mist commercials not because they pay me a lot of money or because it only takes a couple of days. I do it because I have a respect for all sodas and I like to communicate that. Some people say soda, some people say pop, where I'm from in Indiana they called it breakfast.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.
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What matters is who we are, not who we beat.
