Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.
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I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.
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I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.
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Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.
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I know that when I get in there and I leave that cage I will leave with more than I came in.
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The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
