Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.Chogyam Trungpa
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
Tara Strong -
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
Tammy Blanchard -
I would love to do some theater.
Caitriona Balfe -
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Orison Swett Marden
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
Zubin Mehta -
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
Natasha Lyonne -
Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
Natasha Little -
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos -
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
Camryn Manheim -
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
Bayard Taylor
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
Walt Disney -
I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
Yolandi Visser -
To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
Earl Weaver -
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
Takeshi Kitano -
When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
Fat Joe -
People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
Yuri Kochiyama
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Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
Lorde -
The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
Caleb Cushing -
Good taste is as tiring as good company.
Francis Picabia -
I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.
Brian Greene -
The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
Chogyam Trungpa