Tommy Chong quotes
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“I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.”
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“Boredom is a disease, too.”
-- Tommy ChongSource : "Cheech & Chong Light Up 'The Factor'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2009.
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“Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.”
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“I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.”
-- Tommy ChongSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.”
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“There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.”
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“Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.”
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“The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.”
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“It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.”
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“I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.”
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“Marijuana is a proven medicine.”
-- Tommy ChongSource : "Cheech & Chong Light Up 'The Factor'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2009.
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“Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.”
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“Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.”
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“There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.”
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“The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.”
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“Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.”
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“I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.”
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“Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.”
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“Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.”
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“Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.”
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“Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.”
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“And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya... but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.”
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“So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.”
-- Tommy ChongSource : "Comedian Tommy Chong fighting prostate cancer". www.cnn.com. June 10, 2012.
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“You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.”
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“If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.”
-- Tommy ChongSource : Twitter post from May 07, 2016
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“If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.”
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“Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.”
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“Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.”
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“People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.”
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“The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.”
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“Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.”
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“When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.”
-- Tommy ChongSource : Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.
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“I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.”
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“We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.”
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“You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.”
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“One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.”
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“Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.”
-- Tommy ChongSource : Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.
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“To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.”
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“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.”
-- Tommy ChongSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'”
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“I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'”
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“Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.”
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“The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.”
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