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I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
Tom Shadyac
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Tom Shadyac
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 11
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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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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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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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Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
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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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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 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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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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Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.
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I believe in unity, as opposed to division.
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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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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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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 am operating under the philosophy that I will simply use what I need and the rest - even if I still have it somewhere - is not mine. It is others'. It is for the healing of the natural world. And it is in the process of returning.
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