Tommy Lee (Thomas Lee Bass) Quotes
There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
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The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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I always say the next one is my favorite.
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It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
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I think it's because Toronto is the Gothenburg of Canada, with the trends and the music and everything. I feel very at home when I'm there. Everyone has always been so kind to me.
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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
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My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
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I've never seen my dad come home from work and not walk straight to my mom and ask her about her day.
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There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
