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" Definition is the death of discovery. "
Tom Shadyac
Definition
Discovery
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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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" The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. "
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" I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically. "
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" I think laughter is a sacred act. "
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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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" I was raised Catholic. "
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" If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind. "
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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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" As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy. "
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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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" The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations. "
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" There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond. "
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" 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. "
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" I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money. "
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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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" 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 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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Out
School
" I've been called crazy many times before. "
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" I've never been a Hollywood dropout. "
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" We are what make up society. "
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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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" 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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" Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose. "
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" 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.' "
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" The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that. "
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