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" Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose. "
Tom Shadyac
Own
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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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" 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. "
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" We are what make up society. "
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" I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically. "
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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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" 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 think laughter is a sacred act. "
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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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" 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've never been a Hollywood dropout. "
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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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" I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money. "
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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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" My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese. "
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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 don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things. "
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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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" I was raised Catholic. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism. "
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