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 love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Way
  • Inspires

• 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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• 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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Way
  • Day
  • Where

• I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

  

  Victoria Moran
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  • See
  • Mountain

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Way
  • Awareness

• I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Way
  • Day
  • Hip Hop

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Way
  • City
  • Travel

• I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Way
  • Materials
  • Detect

• 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.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Home
  • Way
  • Mom

• We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Way
  • Television
  • April

• 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.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Country
  • Way
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Want
  • Way
  • Communication

• I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Time
  • Way
  • Natural

• Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Way
  • Determination
  • Fretting

• The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Money
  • Way
  • Currency

• Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Age
  • Way

• As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Night
  • Team
  • Player

• I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Expectations

• "Don't trust metaphors," the wombat snorted. "If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!"

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mean
  • Trust
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Tommy Chong
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  • Existence
  • Experts