Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

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• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Crazy

• For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Way
  • Budget

• Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

  

  Little Richard
  • Soul
  • Universe
  • Taken

• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Program
  • Imitate

• This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision, as well.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • School

• I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Trying
  • Play
  • Kevin Spacey

• When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Rock
  • Waiting
  • Artists

• There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Spirit
  • Conviction
  • Inward

• Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • People
  • Good
  • Goal

• Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Difference
  • Roads
  • Traveled

• Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Talking
  • Rights
  • Citizen

• Being that I was raised in the Catholic faith, I am very careful about what I choose. I've turned down a lot of projects that... could have helped me a lot financially, and I've quit shows because of where they were going and because I feel like I have to be a role model for my kids.

  

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan
  • Kids
  • Faith
  • Role Model

• As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • World
  • Light
  • Artist

• ... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Confusion
  • Phenomenon
  • Turmoil

• Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Despotism

• Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Confusion
  • Awake
  • Involves