Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character-an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.
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I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.
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A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.
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For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.
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I'm trying to put plus-size on the map. We can be fashion-forward.
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It's no use trying to be different than you are.
