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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.' "

Tom Shadyac

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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. "

" The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that. "

" I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community. "

" I believe in unity, as opposed to division. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never been a Hollywood dropout. "

" Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose. "

" 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. "

" My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese. "

" The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. "

" There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Technology is not good, it's neutral. "

" I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically. "

" One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is. "

" Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done. "

" 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. "

" To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike. "

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