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 look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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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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What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
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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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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
