Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
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It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.
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The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
