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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.
Tom Shadyac
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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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We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.
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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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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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Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
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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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Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.
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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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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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