Cigarette Quotes - Page 3

• The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

  Barney Ross

  Break Up, Locks, Might

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• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  Ed Markey

  Couple, Children, Simple

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• Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

  Jack LaLanne

  Good Morning, Coffee, Sick

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• I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!

  Jesse Helms

  Marijuana, Two, Smoking

  "For Helms, His Home State Is Source of Foreign Policy" by David E. Sanger, www.nytimes.com. April 2, 1996.

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• This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

  Renny Harlin

  Marijuana, Talking, People

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• They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cancer, Hard Work, Smoking

  "The Second Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1966.

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• Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Failure, Cigarette Smoke, Light

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.

  Trey Parker

  Vacation, Cigarette Smoke, People

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• I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

  Lexa Doig

  Girl, Healthy, Watches

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• In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

  Loni Anderson

  Romantic, Light, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
  When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;...
  Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
  Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Giving, Smoking, Naked

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• An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

  Melissa Leo

  School, Play, Acting

  "Melissa Leo’s Golden Moment". Interview With Daniel D’addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2010.

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• They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

  Bill Hicks

  Life, Smoking, Comedian

  "Dark Poet". Stand-up show, 1991.

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• There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

  The Observer, October 30, 1988.

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• Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

  C. Everett Koop

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, Our Society

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• It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

  Loni Anderson

  People, Young, Stills

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• My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

  Loni Anderson

  Mom, Marijuana, Fire

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• To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

  Lorna Luft

  Drinking, Marijuana, High Heels

  Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

  Etta James

  Girl, Years, People

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• Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

  Bill Blass

  Drawing, Style, Cocktails

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• I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

  Frederik Pohl

  Morning, Block, Typewriters

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• I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Fire, Smoking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.112, BookBaby

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• Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
  In learned doctor's spite;
  Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
  And lap me in delight.

  Charles Sprague Sargent

  Clouds, Doctors, Smoking

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• Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking

  Amy Jenkins

  Dog, Children, Believe

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• I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Hate, Cigarette Smoke, Two

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