Cigarette Quotes - Page 20

• I smoked 20 cigarettes to get that sound because I'd read that John Lennon smoked a load of cigarettes on "Twist and Shout".

  Steve Diggle

  Twists, Sound, Lennon

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.

  Malachy McCourt

  Used, Philanderer, Recovering

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Drinking, Decision, Alcohol

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Letting Go, Long, Rehab

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Football, Player, Thinking

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...

  Garry Marshall

  Writing, Comedian, Clubs

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

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• If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Wine, Thinking

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• I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Long, Smoking, Complaining

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette.

  David Letterman

  Country, Utah, Squad

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• Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Business, School, Car

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• They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Giving, Smoking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?

  Willie Geist

  Guy, Cooking, Printed

  "Anthony Bourdain Roast: Star Gets Bashed By Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri And More At New York Wine & Food Festival (NSFW)" by Carey Polis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• A third myth is that men think that women like guys who are dangerous. As a result, guys will often smoke cigarettes, drink too much, and ride a motorcycle without a helmet. The reality? Women don't like guys who are dangerous. Women want us to think that because women are trying to kill us.

  Dennis Miller

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• If you can find a company that can get away with raising prices year after year without losing customers (an addictive product such as cigarettes fills the bill), you've got a terrific investment.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Bills, Losing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

  Ellen Goodman

  Cancer, People, Smoking

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• I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Thinking, People, Retarded

  Source: genius.com

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• Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

  Herb Kelleher

  Turkeys, Essentials, Maintenance

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• Found a smoldering cigarette left by a horse.

  Dave Barry

  God, Horse, Stupidity

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• When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.

  John Dos Passos

  New York, Men, Typewriters

  John Dos Passos, Library of America (Firm) (2003). “Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941”

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• I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies, so I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time! I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies, all around my neck, I'll be Tracheotomy Man! He can smoke a pack
  at a time, he's Tracheotomy Man!

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Enemy

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• People who smoke cigarettes, they say "You don't know how hard it is to quit smoking." Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing.

  Mitch Hedberg

  People, Smoking, Quitting

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• Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette."

  Eddie Izzard

  People, Mind, Racist

  "Eddie Izzard: Sexie". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Children, Air, Breathing

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• When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.

  Brice Marden

  Drinking, Smoking, Certain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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