Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
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Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.
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Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
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I started a big part of my career in Vegas.
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With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.
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How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
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In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.
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Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
