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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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Tom Shadyac
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 11
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Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.
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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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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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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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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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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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We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.
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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 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 part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.
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I believe in unity, as opposed to division.
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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 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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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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Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
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Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
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