L. Ron Hubbard Quotes
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
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Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.
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I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.
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When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'
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I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
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Statistical techniques are tools of thought, and not substitutes for thought.
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That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.
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There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
