Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Tell the truth.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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This is an amazing business, creative and mechanical at the same time.
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Just a warning: If you're a bunch of sexy teenagers at a lake where other sexy teenagers were killed 30 years ago, leave! The guy in the forest with a hockey mask... maybe doesn't play hockey.
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I'm against abortion.
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Our development strategy is based on a deep understanding of our customers. They want high-quality products and good service.
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An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.
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Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
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I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way any more.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty.
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I have no expectations. None at all.
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Vision is an intelligent form of thought
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There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.
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If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.
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There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.
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A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
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It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.
