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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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Tom Shadyac
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 11
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Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
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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 am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
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TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.
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The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.
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The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development its love - that one principle.
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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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Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
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I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.
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Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.
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I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.
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The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
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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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As I won, I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
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The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act it is simply a law.
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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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I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.
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We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.
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When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
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