We’ve collected the best Ton Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Melissa Rosenberg, Jimmy Walker, Quincy Jones, Jake Tapper, Jay Roach. Use them as an inspiration.
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Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you’re on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don’t necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.
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There’s definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I’ve done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There’s this movie I did called ‘Queens of Country’ a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.
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My mom made me read a ton of books, so I got good at words and understood the English language. So when I started rapping, words were something I knew. I learned how to manipulate them so that I could say whatever I wanted to say.
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There is a lot of California in my… sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.
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When it came to eliciting a reaction from an audience, especially at the time, I think Ric Flair is the guy who is constantly up there. Especially when you talk about speaking with passion and being able to convey a ton of emotion with his words and his body language.
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The Whole30 Diet has made a huge difference for me with my sweet tooth. The best part was it taught me that I can still be satisfied without having a ton of sugar in my diet.
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But ‘Hey Dude’ was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.
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I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she‘d always be like, ‘But what if you went to college and you got a degree?’ She’d try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn’t have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.
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One of the things I have learned is some of the most judgmental people have been other moms, and there have also been a ton of moms who have been very supportive and encouraging.
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I didn’t see a ton of movies growing up.
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When you come into a role, there seems to be just a ton of different places you can make an impact. But it’s critical in that first year to be seen to be a leader that can actually accomplish things and has a sense of priorities.
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I’ve always struggled a ton with my body image, and I wanted to help other people not feel so ashamed about themselves. It’s a completely unnecessary part of everyday life.
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I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.
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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
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If the West Point class of 1915 is called ‘the class the stars fell on’ for the number of World War II generals it produced, my junior-high class of 1950 is the class a ton of bricks fell on from Hollywood‘s gut-wrenching portrayals of mother-love in ’40s-era movies.
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I grew up in a great neighborhood, and I remember that you just walked out the front door, and you had a ton of friends to hang out and play with.
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While most vegetables are good sources of fiber, greens – especially the dark, leafy variety – are jam-packed with fiber and a ton of micronutrients.
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I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn’t make a big difference, and it never has. So, I’ve saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it’s part of our culture, and it’s part of a social activity more than anything else.
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I watched a ton of cartoons growing up, but I don’t remember specifically what networks they were on, I’ll be honest. But I did like cartoons as a kid.
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I came from a big family – two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.
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I think I’ve just gotten really good at accessorizing personally. I’ve always been good at accessorizing other people, and intellectually, I’ve known how to accessorize, but I was pretty minimal personally – although I was wearing a ton of rings.
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There are a ton of people doing great things every day, and you don’t hear about it!
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You have to have a ton of passion for what you’re doing because being an entrepreneur is probably twice as hard as you think it’s going to be. The good news is that it’s probably twice as much fun when it’s going well.
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I have that balance of having fun – because I can need to have a ton of fun – but also locking it in at times.
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Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don’t think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.
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Charles Oakley was the first professional athlete that I met, period. That meant a ton. It proved to me that if I worked hard enough, good things would happen.
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We read the financial papers and there’s a ton of tech and media mergers and acquisitions we’re likely to take inspiration from.
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The one thing I would say is, I do think women are evaluated differently than men. How we look, what is our age? Do you see a ton of 55-year-old women in sports television? No. But there are men in their 60s and 70s across many networks who are still in sports television.
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Selling a band predicated on nothing is always an interesting proposition, and of course, the fact of the matter is that I really started out in music before I ever acted, and I’ve done a ton of singing.
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Something that bothered people about ‘Dawson’s Creek‘ but as a writer, I kind of dug: writing those kids as though they were college grad students. It was fun and liberating and made for a true sort of writer’s show. It was a fun year for me, because I got to get out of debt with my first TV job, and I learned a ton.
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I don’t get hit a ton on the button.
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I watch reality TV, but unless you have been part of that crew, unless you’ve sort of been immersed in that culture in what’s happening, unless you have been in that concentrated moment, you wont believe it unless you’re there. And with ‘Ton of Cash‘ we just hope that we captured all of the best moments.
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You wouldn’t think it would make a ton of sense, but I’ve been on Jeopardy! for over 20 years now, so it’s kind of like going home.
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The signing bonus is a ton of money, especially for a 21-year-old. But I’m not going to live off that money. At some point, I’m going to live off a college degree.
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I don’t go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you’re willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.
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There’s sacrifice involved. Either you’re going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you’re going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you’re sacrificing your career.
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I’d done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I’d done was somebody’s else’s work and someone else’s vision.
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I’ve seen my fair share of drama over the years of Children In Need. I had a close brush with mortality in 2009 when a chain collapsed from the studio rigging. I was in mid-spout to camera when I heard an enormous crash behind me – a ton of steel had come hurtling down and smashed to the ground a few feet away.
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Recycling, cutting back on driving, and changing out old light bulbs for energy-efficient ones might save half a ton of carbon a year. A household going car-free, flight-free, and vegan – changes impractical, if not outright impossible, for many families to make – might reduce emissions by four tons a year.
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The analogy I use is that ‘World of Warcraft‘ is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don’t really want to interact with them; you just want to know you’re part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you’ll know someone else is there.
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We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are.
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It’s that great feeling, like the first man on the moon, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. And now, I’m the first to deadlift half a ton. It’s history, and I’m very proud to be a part of it.
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Look, there might not be a whole lot of people that really can relate to being a fighter pilot. Let’s just be honest. But there’s a ton of people that can relate to being a mom, because I am doing it right along with them.
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There’s always a ton of emotion coming from me, so I’m really excited to share it.
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I think, in spring, we don’t want to wear makeup, we don’t want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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Everybody on top has a ton of haters.
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We like to create an atmosphere where people can try whatever they want and experiment. But ultimately people tend to fall on the script and there isn’t a ton of improvisation. There certainly are some improvised moments and we encourage that. If it’s better than what we wrote it’ll be in the movie and if not, it’s out.
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I have a ton of guy friends who talk to me about their bodies, too. But boys are often left out of the body positivity conversation.
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I go through phases of watching a ton of dance/performance, and I am bizarrely well-informed on the subject.
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My mom is a beautiful, amazing woman. We didn’t have a ton of money growing up, and even, at one point, we were living on food stamps. But my mom still managed to make sure we ate healthy and were always fed nutritious meals!
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I’ve been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does – there’s a fearlessness about her.
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When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn’t get me in trouble.
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You know, another thing people don’t realize is that there’s a ton of luck in ‘Jeopardy.’
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I grew up watching my older brother very closely who was a football player and a star in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio. My love of the game started early because of watching him. My neighborhood played a ton of football, pickup games outside in the backyards of the apartments where I grew up.
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In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women – mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast – who didn’t marry.
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MMA is not one of those up and down basketball seasons where you have a ton of games and you can still make the playoffs. It doesn’t work like that in MMA. You get a couple losses, you get washed up, you get the door slammed behind you and they bring in the next person behind you who is here to take your place.
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Tennis is such a fun game. One of the things that I really like is that everything depends on you. Before certain matches, you might have those butterflies, but that’s the excitement. There’s a ton of emotion that you’re going through.
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I haven‘t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.
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I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.
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My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
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I feel very positive that someone told me if I get on television there would be limo rides. Definitely someone said I would be getting a ton of free stuff from companies that want me to be seen with their products. None of this happened.
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Cleveland, although I didn’t play a lot I really learned a ton in my year and a half of being there. I was really fortunate to be around some of the game’s best players.
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I do most of my vocals – aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don’t do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird.
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The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don’t get credited in the book.
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‘Speechless‘ is first and foremost a show about a family that doesn’t have a ton of money, but they move into a really crappy house in a really nice neighborhood so their kids can go to a nice school.
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When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.
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I always stay positive if I can. I always stay upbeat and always have a ton of energy.
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I stole a ton of film language from Steven Soderbergh and ‘The Limey.’ It’s the definition of elliptical. It was the first movie I remember that introduced me to storytelling that isn’t just one scene after another, and that things can be mixed up in the way that real experiences can.
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I think in spring, we don’t want to wear makeup, we don’t want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I’ve done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I’m behind the camera.
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Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that’s a Hollywood lifestyle.
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Playing in the OHL, people expect you to get a ton of points. When you go out and have a good game it’s almost like people expect that out of you.
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I don’t have a ton of talents. I’m not this conventionally attractive TV dude.
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There aren’t a ton of trans people in general, so in any vocation there’s probably not going to be a ton of trans people. So I’ve been thinking about what me doing stand-up or me doing comedy means in terms of representation.
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My seventh-grade year, I played football. I was, like, 15 pounds overweight, so I had to lose a ton of weight. They put me at left tackle; they put me on the defensive line. I absolutely hated football. I didn’t want to play again. Eighth grade year, I didn’t play.
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I want to see a ton more comedy for women.
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There’s a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There’s a ton of misunderstanding.
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A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there’s a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.
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It’s not a ton of fun being a backup quarterback.
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I don’t listen to a ton of rock music.
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I learned that if you’re going to be a troublemaker, you don’t want a ton of witnesses, because there’s inevitable fallout from living like you’re in ‘Lord of the Flies.’
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Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, ‘I’m taking this onboard because I’m making a ton of money, and not because it’s going to be something special.’
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Working with John Stamos is a ton of fun. He’s just the biggest sweetheart – and he’s just still gorgeous as can be. Such a hottie!
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I have a ton of appreciation for every snap I get to play this great game.
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I was definitely a child of the ’80s. Cable TV was new. I watched a ton of movies and a ton of TV. HBO would show the same movies over and over again, so I’d watch the same movies over and over again.
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Hey, it’s tough not to have a ton of admiration for the fans of Baltimore. And, for it me, it’s because they are such a hard-working, blue-collar fan base that loves football.
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I’ve met a ton of new people who have colitis or Crohn’s. Talking to them has been probably the most healing thing: to hear other people’s attitudes on how they deal with their disease and how they stay positive.
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I’ve never had a ton of money.
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‘Hey Dude’ was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.
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I have a ton of respect for Fred Van Vleet.
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There are always a ton of different people to learn from and people that are pushing me to get better.
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There’s a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New York more, I think that L.A. is a really fascinating place.
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I’ve gotten a lot of messages from kids struggling with their identity and sexuality, whether it’s because they’re in a religious family or a small town or a sport that’s not very accepting. I’ve had a ton of outreach, and I’ve tried to get back to kids as best I could.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what’s going to happen in a day!
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The column‘s worked out great for me. I’ve gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
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When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn’t used to cost that much, so I used to keep ’em, collect ’em, trade ’em.
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I think that there is a lot of people that miss what pro wrestling can give them too. I don’t watch a ton of it. I watch enough to see what is going on. I think it is also good to not be watching it because your ideas are your ideas.
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I don’t spend a ton of time interacting, but I feel like I probably do more than most rappers/artists. I just find it interesting to be able to communicate with fans. It’s cool.
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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
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Every day, I feel different. Sometimes I don’t put on any makeup, and other times, I put on a ton.
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What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don’t have with other people.
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I’m obsessed with music videos, and I just go on marathons of watching a ton of music videos.
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Little boys are a ton of fun.
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One or two great lay downs per tournament will give you a few extra lives while a few well-timed bluffs will give you a ton of extra chips.
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I’m enjoying watching my kids grow and play sports. That’s a ton of fun.
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I don’t need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it’s all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I’d make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted.
