Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
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I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
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I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
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I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
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If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.
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We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands.
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
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Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.
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Your past comes with you no matter where you go.
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People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
