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 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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Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
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Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.
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The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.
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The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.
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I don't follow football, but I always watch the Superbowl.
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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
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There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.