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
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done. – Tom Shadyac
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world. – Tom Shadyac
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. – Tom Shadyac
I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt. – Tom Shadyac
Communism didn’t work because people weren’t ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism. – Tom Shadyac
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it’s redemptive and beautiful, and it’s God’s love story to mankind. – Tom Shadyac
My dad’s half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I’m three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese. – Tom Shadyac
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. – 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. – Tom Shadyac
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it’s love – that one principle. – Tom Shadyac
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man’s ability to fight and often triumph. – 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. – Tom Shadyac
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
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 truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that. – Tom Shadyac