Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
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Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
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Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
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Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.
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Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.
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I think real enlightenment is total sanity, a kind of acceptance of what actually is. It does involve a kind of different way of looking at things. As I've done this Zen practice for years and years, I've acquired what I realize is an almost upside down view of life compared to what most people think, which is just what I used to think it was too. It's not really an insane view, at least I hope it's not.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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I'm not maximized yet.
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People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.
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If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
