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.
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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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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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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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I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.
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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.
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You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
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There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.
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We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.
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We like to get money. Whoever wants to work with us and make some money, let's do it.
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Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
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The only sci-fi movie that I've ever been offered that, had circumstances been different, I would have definitely done, was 'Avatar.' And I literally couldn't do it because of my schedule. But listening to James Cameron talk about 'Avatar' was so fascinating. Because he literally invented the world in his mind - and it literally existed.
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The exalted moment of love is always full of promise: it is not closed in on itself, but open; we see its natural fruitfulness revealed in the child, even if its spiritual fruitfulness remains hidden.
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I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a five- or six-year-old, quite a thrilling enticement to revolt. The anarchy sign scratched in desk tops, and so on.
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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.
