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In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.

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Tom Shadyac
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 11
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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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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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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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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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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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Theres one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law thats evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
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Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
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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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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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Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.
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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 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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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 don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.
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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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I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
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Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.
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You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
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