Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!
Quotes to Explore
-
I kind of crave loneliness.
-
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
-
I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
-
I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
-
I think I'm a good judge of character.
-
Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
-
The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
-
The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
-
I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
-
Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.
-
This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.
-
I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
-
I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.
-
When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.
-
I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
-
Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.
-
We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
-
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
-
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
-
Claude Kirk could be hysterically funny and fearlessly bold, and he championed the environment, education, and diversity long before those issues were fashionable.
-
Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
-
In my end is my beginning.
-
When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!
