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 am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'
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Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
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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.
