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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. "
Tom Shadyac
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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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" 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 don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things. "
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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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" As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy. "
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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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" 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've been called crazy many times before. "
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" I've never been a Hollywood dropout. "
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" There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond. "
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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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" The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. "
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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 paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money. "
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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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