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.

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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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• For me, family has always come first.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Family
  • Me
  • Always

• 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
  • Up
  • You
  • Enemy

• 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
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• 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
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• 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
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• 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
  • Business
  • Community
  • Environment

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

  

  Mae West
  • Real
  • Model
  • Lady

• 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
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Financial

• 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
  • Done
  • Purpose

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Future
  • Past

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

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Party

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

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Experience
  • Sun
  • Beach

• Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • People
  • Money

• 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
  • Black

• 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
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Great
  • Character

• Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

  

  Barry Mann
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Lyrics

• The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter.

  

  Alexandre Vinet
  • Soul
  • Light
  • Eyes

• I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mind
  • Loved
  • Kid

• Being in a field like healthcare, for me, as someone who is basically on a mission to make a global impact in terms of affordable access to healthcare, I am very, very concerned about the fact that there are a large number of people in this world who need to have some access to basic rights, whether it is in education or healthcare.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• 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