Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
-
I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
-
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
-
I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
-
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
-
Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
-
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
-
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
-
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
-
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
-
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
-
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
-
I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
-
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
-
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
-
I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
-
I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
-
I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
-
Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense
-
The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
-
As the totem pole is tied to the lineality of the missionaries' Bible, so the igloo was made possible by the primus stove.
-
I'd really love to watch David Lynch work, to be a fly on the wall.
-
Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.
-
Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things.
