Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tommy Chong
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: May 24
Actor
Comedian
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Musician
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Thomas B. Kin Chong
Thing
Poverty
Really
Trouble
Kills
Good
Stop
Afford
People
Getting
Drugs
Poor
Helps
Success
Quickly
Helping
Keeps
Giving
Drug
More quotes by Tommy Chong
Once you're a felon you're a target.
Tommy Chong
Marijuana has become like currency. Anytime you grow a crop like marijuana, or wheat, or corn, or anything that people consume on a daily basis, you're [getting] into a huge economic area.
Tommy Chong
I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.
Tommy Chong
Boredom is a disease, too.
Tommy Chong
More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.
Tommy Chong
You got a bag of pot, there's someone who wants to buy it from you. So in a weird way, marijuana has [become] and is becoming the new currency of the world.
Tommy Chong
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
There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.
Tommy Chong
I'm as clean as a whistle.
Tommy Chong
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
I only smoke maybe a nug a day.
Tommy Chong
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
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
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
I do believe that [Bill] Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was.
Tommy Chong
When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.
Tommy Chong
You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.
Tommy Chong
There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.
Tommy Chong
Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.
Tommy Chong
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