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I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it. -- Tommy Chong
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The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy. -- Tommy Chong
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I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy. -- Tommy Chong
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You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world. -- Tommy Chong
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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier. -- Tommy Chong
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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 Chong
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A lot of prophets have gone to jail. -- Tommy Chong
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I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead. -- Tommy Chong
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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 Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater. -- Tommy Chong
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Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me. -- Tommy Chong
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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 Chong
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Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya. -- Tommy Chong
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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.' -- Tommy Chong
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I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life. -- Tommy Chong
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I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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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 Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy. -- Tommy Chong
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Marijuana is a proven medicine. -- Tommy Chong
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Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call. -- Tommy Chong
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I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny. -- Tommy Chong
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There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top. -- Tommy Chong
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I've always been into improvisation. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred. -- Tommy Chong
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Once you're a felon you're a target. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime. -- Tommy Chong
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My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. -- Tommy Chong
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'That '70s Show' was one of the highlights of my life. I didn't expect to be on it as long as I was. -- Tommy Chong
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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.' -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil. -- Tommy Chong
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Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. -- Tommy Chong
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The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself. -- Tommy Chong
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I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world. -- Tommy Chong
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Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya. -- Tommy Chong
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Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back. -- Tommy Chong
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I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants. -- Tommy Chong
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Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny. -- Tommy Chong
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I'm as clean as a whistle. -- Tommy Chong
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I was more of a weightlifter. -- Tommy Chong
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The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career. -- Tommy Chong
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They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable. -- Tommy Chong
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The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes. -- Tommy Chong
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Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it. -- Tommy Chong
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No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in. -- Tommy Chong
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But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible. -- Tommy Chong
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You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. -- Tommy Chong
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Boredom is a disease, too. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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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. -- Tommy Chong
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When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. -- Tommy Chong
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Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations. -- Tommy Chong