Pills Quotes - Page 13

• Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

  Allan Bloom

  Struggle, Hunting, Views

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• It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Sick, Support, Stronger

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• You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

  Julian Baggini

  Views, Issues, People

  "Speakers' corner" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2008.

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• How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Lasts, Bitter

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.173, McClelland & Stewart

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• The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

  Richard Brautigan

  Thinking, People, Disaster

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.

  Denis Johnson

  Sweet, Rain, Names

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• I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Lasts, Thick

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Crazy, Believe, Science

  Cecelia Ahern (2008). “The Gift”, HarperCollins UK

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• I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Elephants, Machines

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• There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

  Daniel Handler

  Pyramids, Psychology, Pudding

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• I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.

  Patti Stanger

  Gay, Carter, Gay Marriage

  "Patti Stanger Makes More Anti-Gay Comments on 'Joy Behar' Show" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stress, Thinking, Odyssey

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• Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of fine-haired pills or tuftlets on each new edge! It is a staggering conception, showing an age-transforming feel for the unique properties of pulped wood fiber.

  Nicholson Baker

  Unique, Leaving, Tears

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• If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

  Suzanne Collins

  Team, Coffee, Hair

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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• No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Unique, Profound, Odd Things

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.869, Oxford University Press

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• I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.

  Kat Duff

  Placebo Effect, Long, Magic

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• When it comes to popping pills, probably 90 percent bad. And people say they're not addictive - I still have yearnings for them. Especially after a few pints. I don't think you ever lose the yearning for them.

  Damien Dempsey

  Thinking, People, Yearning

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• At one point, I even thought, "Oh, I'll take diet pills." I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Heart, One Day, Awful

  "Jenna Aks: Have You Ever Tried A Fad Diet?" by Jenna Ushkowitz, www.seventeen.com. January 30, 2012.

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• It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

  Malcolm Potts

  Funny, Humorous, Smoking

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• You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  Eve Babitz

  Hurt, Art, Mean

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• I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

  James St. James

  Giving, Sugar Coating, Poison

  James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

  Ray Stevens

  Reality, Purple, Drug

  Song: Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasan, Album: Ray Stevens Box Set

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• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Remembrance, Birth Control

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• I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?

  Emily Haines

  Depressing, Children, Mean

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

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• Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%.

  Kristi Funk

  Cancer, Risk, Age

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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