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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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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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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I was at the Cross With Mary Magdalene. I received the muse From Ceridwen's cauldron.
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You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.
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It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.
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We always said that directors work their whole lives to get final cut on a movie. We have that. So why would you want to run away from what every other director is sprinting toward their entire careers?
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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.
