Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! And only when I started did I think, 'Sheesh, what have I gotten into?' I had to go after it fully; I just had to.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
