Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.
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I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
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No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.
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For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
