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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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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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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Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?
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It's no use trying to be different than you are.
