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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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Tommy Chong
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: May 24
Actor
Comedian
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Film Director
Musician
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Thomas B. Kin Chong
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I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.
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I'm as clean as a whistle.
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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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Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.
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More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.
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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.
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I support Bernie [Sanders] and I love his approach.
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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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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.
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