Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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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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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.
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All I try to do in the press is to be honest about something that I really care about.
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No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods.
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If people are honest, they'll admit that I do have a fan base.
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I'm actually a humanist, believe it or not, and I believe even when people are corrupted, even when they've gone to the dark side, they are still human beings.
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As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
