Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

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You cannot do only one thing.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
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You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
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We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.