Tom Shadyac Quotes - Page 2

• I am operating under the philosophy that I will simply use what I need and the rest - even if I still have it somewhere - is not mine. It is others'. It is for the healing of the natural world. And it is in the process of returning.

  Tom Shadyac

  Philosophy, Healing, Needs

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.

  Tom Shadyac

  Healing, Reflection, Emotional

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• I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

  Tom Shadyac

  People, World, Normal

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

  Tom Shadyac

  Love Is, Enemy, Without Love

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• The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

  Tom Shadyac

  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

  Tom Shadyac

  Spiritual, Keys, Simplicity

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• Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

  Tom Shadyac

  Letting Go, Swim, Needs

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• TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

  Tom Shadyac

  Children, Believe, Winning

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• I think laughter is a sacred act.

  Tom Shadyac

  Laughter, Thinking, Sacred

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• As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.

  Tom Shadyac

  Dar, Caridad, Querer

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• I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

  Tom Shadyac

  Jesus, Teaching, Catholic

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• No quería oír las respuestas habituales sobre lo que está mal porque creo que son síntomas: calentamiento global, genocidio, hambre, pobreza, guerra, crisis medioambiental. Si somos capaces de identificar la raíz del problema, podremos cambiar nuestra forma de actuar.

  Tom Shadyac

  War, Believe, Hunger Poverty

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• Soy de la escuela de Madeleine L'Engle. Cuanto más profundiza en la ciencia, más sabe que hay un creador que está detrás de esas leyes asombrosas, de esos acontecimientos asombrosos. La simetría de la naturaleza, su estructura y su orden.

  Tom Shadyac

  School, Order, Law

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• I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

  Tom Shadyac

  Party, Thinking, Kind

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• I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

  Tom Shadyac

  Lucha, Hombres, Gente

  "Tom Shadyac Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

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  Art, Artist, Lawyer

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

  Tom Shadyac

  People, Changed, Interest

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

  Tom Shadyac

  Mom, Dad, Three

  "Eye to Eye, Lie to Lie". Interview with Scott Collins, articles.latimes.com. March 12, 1997.

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• Definition is the death of discovery.

  Tom Shadyac

  Discovery, Definitions

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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.

  Tom Shadyac

  Lying, Home, Cheater

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• I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.

  Tom Shadyac

  Walking Away, Hollywood, Needs

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

  Tom Shadyac

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.

  Tom Shadyac

  Philosophy, Years, Groups

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

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  People, Individualism, Communism

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.

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  Mother, Pain, Relief

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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