Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
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'You have to have some kind of morality,' he said.'Sure. Like you have to have motives for doing anything at all. Still, I think we’re beyond that smug sort of code which proclaimed crusades and burned heretics and threw dissenters into concentration camps. We need more personal and less public honor.'
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If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.
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When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.
