Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

Tommy Chong

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• It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Musicians

• The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Revolution

• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Company

• The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

  Ford Frick
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Opera

• The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Live
  • Art
  • Evil

• This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Wealth
  • White

• I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Real
  • Family
  • Political

• My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • She
  • Culture

• Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Water

• My sisters are my best friends and my most staunch supporters. They're always there to help me through every audition, through interviews, and through everything. Hopefully, I find some guy that I love as much as them some day. They are the best things in my life, and I would be completely lost without them.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friends

• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Rain

• Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.

  

  Karl Marx

• I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • People

• If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

  

  Roland Joffe
  • People
  • Made
  • Depth

• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• There's a lot of pressure to look good, have the gun, know what you're doing and be one of the boys. I was like, "I don't want to be one of the boys. I want to be a doctor. I want to be cerebral. I want to sit back and just use something else. I don't want to do the stunts. Let the boys do that. I'm just going to be the doctor who's about taking care of other people."

  

  Moon Bloodgood
  • People
  • Care
  • Looks

• I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Matter