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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Ideas worth questioning: 'Being an artist is a job for life.'
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Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
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I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.
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The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
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None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.
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Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
