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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. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#american public #ancient #celebrities #celebrity #church

If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#palestinian #palestinian people #people #won

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#i think #more #party #populist #republican

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#american #american people #anarchist #bomb #choice

I do not represent the Republican Party. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#i do #party #represent #republican #republican party

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. ↗

— Marquis de Lafayette

#american people #clergy #destroyed #ever #fall

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#becoming #doing #fame #famous #going

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that. ↗

— Alf Landon

#awake #civilization #complex #got #growing

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#american people #appointment #carefully #consider #court

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war. ↗

— Mike Lee

#american #american people #balanced #balanced budget #barbaric