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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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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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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Take away our things, and something in us dies.
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The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
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Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.
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The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate school.
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During fashion week, I dream about fashion; afterwards, I dream about fishing. After fashion week, I always go fishing to wind down.
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
