Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.
Tommy Chong
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
Kate Christensen
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
Sam Shepard
The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
Natan Sharansky
A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
Larry Kirshbaum
I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
Young Jeezy
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.
Lana Del Rey
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You can try to plan your career, but not marriage.
Katrina Kaif
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
David Mamet
I'm married to a health-conscious American. I try to eat well, but definitely, as an Australian, you have some of the red meat, lamb, steak, barbecues as part of your culture.
James P. Gorman
With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.
Mary McDonnell
My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!
Kelly Wearstler
I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
Lupe Ontiveros
I come from a middle-class South Indian family, and we speak Tulu at home. I never led a lavish life, and I have my feet on the ground.
Pooja Hegde
I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.
Elaine Stritch
In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.
Amanda Holden
Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
Fareed Zakaria
Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.
Karan Patel
Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like.
Joanne Rowling
When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.
Alex Gibney
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.
Fawzia Koofi
The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.
Tommy Chong
