L. Ron Hubbard Quotes
In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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People want you to fail.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.
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When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.
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Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano BuendÃa would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.
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I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
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In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.
