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" Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things. "
Tom Shadyac
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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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" Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I was raised Catholic. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money. "
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" I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there. "
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" To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike. "
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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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" There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond. "
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" The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations. "
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" I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph. "
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" If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on. "
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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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" I've been called crazy many times before. "
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" We are what make up society. "
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" The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. "
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" Definition is the death of discovery. "
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" I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community. "
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" I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt. "
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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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