Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.
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New York is my home.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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You have to follow that next step.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
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Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
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I just thank God for all of the blessings.
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As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.
