Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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People trash talk me.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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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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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.
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Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
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In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.
