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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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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
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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.
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When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.
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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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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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I believe that all marijuana is medical.
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I do believe that [Bill] Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was.
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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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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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Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'm as clean as a whistle.
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[Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more he speaks, the more his real character shows.
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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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Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.
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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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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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I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.
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