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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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 spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.
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If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer.
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A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way
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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.
