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
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  • Me
  • Writer

• I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

  

  Zendaya
  • Way
  • Change
  • Speak

• The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Way
  • Action
  • Comedy

• 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • City
  • Travel

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

  

  Taylor Wilson
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  • 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
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  • 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

• Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

  

  Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Way
  • Governance

• That's what I've always loved about music, that I could go be another guy for two hours. But ultimately it all comes back to: do you have the songs, can you sing them, do you have a great band that can play them with you? You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours. I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

  

  Greg Dulli The Afghan Whigs
  • Life
  • Arena
  • Provoker

• If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever it makes an appearance. For the fact that the people practise music has four disadvantages. The hungry are not fed, the cold are not clothed, the homeless are not sheltered and the desperate find no consolation.

  

  John Tilbury AMM
  • People
  • Country
  • Heart

• Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
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  • Spiritual
  • Intuition

• 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