Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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I don't want to do anything in bad taste.
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In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
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Having a solo career is a funny thing.
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People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
