Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
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If this is indeed the alternative, we are in a tragic situation, compelled to choose between social righteousness and communion with God.
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I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.
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In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
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See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.
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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
