Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
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Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
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We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
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You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
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Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.
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My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.
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In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.
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The trouble with dead people often begins with something called the Death Master File, which is kept by the Social Security Administration. Every day, new reports are added, provided by relatives, funeral homes, and the state agencies that issue official death certificates. The list contains 90 million reports.
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I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.
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I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
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I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.
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When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.
