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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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.

  

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• For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• Whenever you get a large body of work like 'Humans of New York,' a natural pathway becomes to put it between two covers. I wanted this to be a very nice keepsake. A lot of work went into it, and a lot of fans are attached to it.

  

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• I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.

  

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• I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.

  

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• Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.

  

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• He was always very nice. What I remember more than meeting Connie Mack was meeting Honus Wagner when he was a coach for the Pirates.

  

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• 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
  • Edges