Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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America is a meritocracy.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg-that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
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It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.
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Seemeth it nothing to you, never to accuse, never to blame either God or Man? to wear ever the same countenance in going forth as in coming in? This was the secret of Socrates: yet he never said that he knew or taught anything... Who amongst you makes this his aim? Were it indeed so, you would gladly endure sickness, hunger, aye, death itself. (85).
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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
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The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
