Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.
Quotes to Explore
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the fuck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
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I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the illusion of having massive amounts of choice and saddles you with the freedom of being able to dabble in that choice. And at the same time, you are left with the tyranny of self-doubt and uncertainty about whether you made the right choice.
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You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.
