Tom Shadyac Quotes
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
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'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
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I've been insane from a very early age.
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I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion. I-i-i-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it. You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress we started.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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We cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan.
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His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
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My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.'
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An idea discovered is much better possessed.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
