"Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Tommy Chong

#Hitting Quotes #Comedy Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.”
“The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes, moral principles of universal validity, such as " Love your enemies," "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," and it leaves to Christians the task-the admittedly difficult task-of applying them in any given situation.”
“All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.”

Source : Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House
“No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.”
“My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.”

Source : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.165, Granta
“We won't be perfect on this side of heaven. But Jesus is perfect. Always. We are becoming more holy and true. Jesus already is. His name isn't â€œBecoming.â€ It is â€œI Am.â€ Perfection isn't the goal. Jesus is.”

Source : Stasi Eldredge (2013). “Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You”, p.95, David C Cook
“Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel.”
“I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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