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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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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I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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Hey, I was raised in the church.
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I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.
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In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan - he told me that I might die if I didn't go through with it.
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Nobody dressed like my dad. When he worked at the bank, he looked like Richard Gere in Gigolo. And he would do it all the night before, laying out the suit he'd wear the next day. Even on weekends, if he had to go into the office, he'd wear a trouser pant with a V-neck sweater and tie. And I was like, I want to dress like that! He was just so cool.
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There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
