L. Ron Hubbard Quotes
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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South Central is just who I am.
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I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
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When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
