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" The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy. "
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. "
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" But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm a hybrid. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world. "
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" Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. "
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