Tommy Chong Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.”
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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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.”
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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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“I'm as clean as a whistle.”
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