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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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
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We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.
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I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.
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I have nothing against homosexuals. I think an orgasm is your thing, and you should fuck whoever the fuck you feel like fucking. Whoever makes you come the hardest. Anybody who says you shouldn't, politely tell them to mind their own business.
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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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.
