Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
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Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
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I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.
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Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?
