L. Ron Hubbard Quotes
One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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Basketball can only go for so long.
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The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.
