"People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it."

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Source : "The Man Behind Scientology" by Thomas C. Tobin, www.sptimes.com. October 25, 1998.

David Miscavige

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.”

Source : "Kristin Kreuk, Video-Game Vixen". Parade Interview, parade.com. February 26, 2009.
“Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.”

Source : "These things I know" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2005.
“If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!”
“I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.”

Source : "An Astronaut's View (1 Letter)", www.nytimes.com. July 22, 2006.
“When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"”
“Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it's you seen through someone else's point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything.”
“My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.”
“Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.”

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