Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
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The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.
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When water power then steam power were harnessed to spin and weave cloth, a cottage craft turned into an industry overnight.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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A wave do ye displace, A shield do ye extend To the travelling woe, And violent exertion through grief. And inflaming through fury Between heaven and earth.
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For me, being out within my life became far more important than being in any movie.
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Luxury is experiencing reality.
