Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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They hate whom they fear.
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'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
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Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
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I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.
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By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.
