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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. "
Tom Shadyac
Ideas
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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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" As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy. "
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" Technology is not good, it's neutral. "
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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'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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" I was raised Catholic. "
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" Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose. "
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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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" I've been called crazy many times before. "
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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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" I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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 believe in unity, as opposed to division. "
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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 one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. "
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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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" 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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" To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike. "
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" We are what make up society. "
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" Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things. "
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" I think laughter is a sacred act. "
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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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