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Lawrence Wright

"Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow."

Source : "Renowned journalist throws the book at Scientology". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

Lawrence Wright

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH”
“They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?”
“The way I write, words can means lots of different things.”
“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.”

Source : "Journey Through Genius". Book by William Dunham, 1990.
“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”
“Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.”
“As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1923). “Children of Loneliness”
“It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.”

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