Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I waited all those years for a title shot, and when I finally got it, I had to pay $20,000 for the opportunity. My purse was only $18,000. So to make money, I had to bet $10,000 on myself at 8-5. That was how it was in those days.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
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I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.
