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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For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
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The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.
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Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.
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The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
