Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes

Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.

Tommy Chong

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

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• For me, family has always come first.

  

  Candace Parker
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• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

  Dan Savage
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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
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• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

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• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

  

  Nate Lowman
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• The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.

  

  Yelena Baturina
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• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

  

  Mae West
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• It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

  

  J. L. Austin
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• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.

  

  Alexander Pope
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• I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
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• Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

  

  Arne Duncan
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• I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.

  

  Chris Stapleton
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• I'm a woman of faith. And I really believe that if I say, 'God, this is what I want,' He says, 'I'll give you your desires, as long as they line up with My will.'

  

  Ashley Graham
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• The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.

  

  George Washington
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• I kind of missed out on those years when a lot of my friends did big backpacking trips around Europe and that sort of thing. So to be able to travel and see parts of the world on the job is kind of a double whammy.

  

  Jai Courtney
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• My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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• I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid.

  

  Jamie Bell
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  • Great
  • Mind

• It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

  

  Jeannette Rankin
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  • Mind
  • American

• Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Mind
  • Pot
  • Adrenaline