Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.
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Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.
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Only a strong economy can create higher asset values and sustainably good returns for savers.
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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
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I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
