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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West -
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 -
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 -
You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.
Eckhart Tolle -
I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.
Lisa Snowdon -
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 -
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 -
I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
Peter Capaldi -
I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
Levon Helm -
I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.
Craig Kilborn -
You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
Kevin Hart
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Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.
Jennifer Pahlka -
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Irving R. Kaufman -
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna -
I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
Al Unser -
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