Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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I'm not a negative person.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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I express myself the way I want. Sometimes, I know, I do put up posts that might be insensitive, but I am not someone who deletes a post. If my posts end up hurting people, I don't have any qualms apologising, and I have done that in the past.
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Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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It's like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy had a baby, and I was it. I've got Rory's length, and I'm hoping that I've got Jordan's touch.
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
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I think everyone has knockout power. I mean, it's the heavyweight division.
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The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.
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Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
