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" I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things. "
Tom Shadyac
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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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" There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things. "
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" I believe in unity, as opposed to division. "
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" I've never been a Hollywood dropout. "
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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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" 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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" 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 think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community. "
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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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" I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically. "
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" I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money. "
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" Definition is the death of discovery. "
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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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" 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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" I was raised Catholic. "
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" One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is. "
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" Technology is not good, it's neutral. "
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" As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy. "
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" Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose. "
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" I think laughter is a sacred act. "
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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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" 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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