Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.
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I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.
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It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.
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There is nothing more American than acknowledging that even if we don't agree politically, even if we don't agree with the president, even if we don't like each other, all of us have the same rights.
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We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.
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Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.
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Error-prone or biased artificial-intelligence systems have the potential to taint our social ecosystem in ways that are initially hard to detect, harmful in the long term, and expensive - or even impossible - to reverse.
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I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
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More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.
