Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Never settle for second when first is available
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."
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Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
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Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.
