Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.
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Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
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It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
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He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
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Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.
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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
