Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
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I was not really scared on my spacewalks. We practice so much and need to stay so focused that it has a calming effect on me. I do a kind of visualization and meditation in the airlock prior to going outside, to guide my first activities once I get out in space.
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The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.
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You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.
