Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

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• The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Good
  • Security

• When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Mom
  • Drama

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Fun

• Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Time
  • House
  • Best

• I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Gold

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Government

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Now
  • Indians
  • Cleveland

• At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Best

• He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Ability
  • Does

• I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Hope
  • Pressure
  • Someone

• I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Believe
  • Make A Difference

• To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Mind

• Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity. You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square - But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • May
  • Monster

• Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam:nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.

  

  Ovid

• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Fact

• Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Life
  • Time

• Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • City
  • Engineering

• Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

  

  John Strachan

• People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Long
  • Chinese
  • White