L. Ron Hubbard Quotes
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
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As truly as the mystic, the scientist is following a light; and it is not a false or an inferior light.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.
