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Tom Shadyac [1958-0] American

Rank: 102
Comedian

Thomas Peter "Tom" Shadyac is an American comedian, director, screenwriter, producer, author and occasional film actor. Shadyac, who was the youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty.

Amazing, Home, Hope, Nature, Success, Technology

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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.	Nature	101
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.		102
I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.	Success	103
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.	Home	104
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.	Hope	105
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.		106
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.		107
Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.		108
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.	Technology	109
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.		110
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.		111
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.		112
If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.		113
Definition is the death of discovery.		114
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.		115
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.		116
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.		117
I think laughter is a sacred act.		118
As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.		119
I believe in unity, as opposed to division.		120
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.	Amazing	121
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.		122
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.		123
I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.		124
I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.		125
There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.		126
To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.		201
Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'		202
Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.		203
You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.		204
One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.		205
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.		206
I've been called crazy many times before.		207
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.		208
We are what make up society.		209
I've never been a Hollywood dropout.		210
I was raised Catholic.		211
The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.		212
Technology is not good, it's neutral.		213
I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.		214

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