Tom Shadyac Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“What matters is who we are, not who we beat.”
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“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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“In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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“I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.”
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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.”
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“You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.”
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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“Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.”
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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.”
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“Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.”
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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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“I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.”
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“The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.”
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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.”
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“Theres one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law thats evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.”
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“I believe in unity, as opposed to division.”
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“Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.”
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“Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs”
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“I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.”
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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 think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.”
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“The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn't as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that TRANSFORMATION OF BEING, action will naturally follow.”
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“Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.”
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