Tom Shadyac Quotes

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Tom Shadyac

Profession : Comedian

Birth : December 11, 1958

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

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Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

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As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

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Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

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When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

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I think laughter is a sacred act.

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One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.

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If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

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Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.

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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.

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Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

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There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

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I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.

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I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.

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I've been called crazy many times before.

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

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I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

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I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.

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We are what make up society.

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I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

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