Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.Chogyam Trungpa
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The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
Sam Kean -
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
Joanne Rowling -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
Nancy Kerrigan -
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
Lady Gregory -
I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo
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I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
Damian Woetzel -
I have disassociated myself from that book.
Uta Hagen -
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Carlisle Floyd -
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
Malorie Blackman -
I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
Karl Lagerfeld
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
Taylor Sheridan -
Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
Vanessa Bayer -
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
Halldor Laxness -
I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
Harmony Korine -
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
Wally Schirra -
The law is cruel.
Jack Kevorkian
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
Baha'u'llah -
One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.
Persis Khambatta -
I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.
Butch Trucks -
The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.
Bertrand Russell -
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
Chogyam Trungpa