Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
Dan Shechtman -
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
Warren Beatty -
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White The White Stripes -
If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
Halle Berry -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
Washed Out
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
Lake Bell -
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
Laura Mvula -
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil -
I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
Taylor Spreitler -
Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
Sam Smith -
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
Famke Janssen -
I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
Eddie Murphy -
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
Daniel Barenboim -
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian -
I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
Harmony Korine -
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
Maggie Q
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But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.
Melody Carlson -
Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.
William Butler Yeats -
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles -
Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
C. J. Mahaney -
One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
Pir Vilayat Khan -
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
Chogyam Trungpa