Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here."
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Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
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This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.
