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.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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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!
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I would love to do some theater.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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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.
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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.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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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.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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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.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.
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When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'
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I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.
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Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
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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.
