Tom Shadyac Quotes

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

Tom Shadyac

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TruthPeopleTruth IsNobodyOwn

When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

Matthew Perry

PeopleFriendsDieHelping People

I always liked the double cutaway. It looked like two horns. It's like a red devil. So I went to the guitar shop, saw an SG that was sitting there looking rather lonely, and said, 'Hey, that's for me.'

Angus Young

RedMeLookingGuitarLonelyDevil

The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.

Michael Hastings

NightCareerWhiteNewRaceClassic

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

Steve Case

PeopleChallengesComputersPersonal

Every person who went into the space industry did so because they looked up at the sky and were fascinated by it - not because they wanted to make a military or commercial object.

Trevor Paglen

SkySpacePersonMilitaryUpObject

When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.

Rosemary Mahoney

MyselfSchoolCollegeHigh School

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Louise Leakey

ChangeThinkYouWonderStopAdapt

Music left my life for a while, to be honest. It wasn't that I didn't like it, but you know, I'm not really a solo player.

Christine McVie

LifeMusicMy LifeYouKnowSolo

Don't treat me like a little girl.

Britney Spears

GirlMeTreatLittleLike

I don't think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system.

Richard Grieco

PeopleThinkCaliforniaUpSystem

The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.

Martha McSally

ChangeBehaviorYouEnemyPainful

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

Martin Gore

BusinessSomethingCycleGoingTour

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