Author: Tom Shadyac

Quotes

We are what make up society.

We are what make up society.

- Tom Shadyac

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.

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.

- Tom Shadyac

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.

- Tom Shadyac

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

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

- Tom Shadyac

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.

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.

- Tom Shadyac

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.

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.

- Tom Shadyac

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.

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.

- Tom Shadyac

The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

- Tom Shadyac

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

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

- Tom Shadyac

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