Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Good design is good business.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
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Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
