Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
Quotes to Explore
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I love working with women.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
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Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
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Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.
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I know how loyal I was to Coach Blatt, and the people that know me understand that. I have no control over what people think.
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
