Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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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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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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'One Tree Hill' was my first television experience, so naturally I was nervous initially. There is no rehearsal, you get your script a few days ahead, and you work. I was also the youngest actor, 13, on set at that time, but it was amazing to be able to 'learn the ropes' with such a supportive group of people.
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I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.
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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
