Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when smartphones came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.
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Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
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I think it is completely unacceptable for someone like Christopher Meyer to break trust in the way that he has done,
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My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
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There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when smartphones came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.
