Cigarette Quotes - Page 24

• Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

  Iggy Pop

  Eggs, Fists, Joints

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• Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Wish, Abhorrent

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.48, Vintage

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• If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?

  Jacob Sullum

  Jobs, Children, Practice

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• Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He was a merchant, he filled the store with cigarette smoke and his friends, all talking about books and politics. It was bad for business. He dealt in women's clothing.

  Rawi Hage

  Father, Book, Writing

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• Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Alcohol, Able

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• The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.

  Ben Howard

  Guitar, Tea, Cups

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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• One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.

  Frank Church

  Beer, Thinking, America

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• The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.

  Zoe Helene

  Ocean, Sea, Healthy

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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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• In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course the tobacco companies are thinking, 'Cigarette sandwiches - what a great idea.'

  Jay Leno

  Beach, Jobs, Thinking

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

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• People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.

  Bill Maher

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Independent, Focus, Pay

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are messy about it, particularly about their lipstick. I don't mind wiping lipstick off myself, but I hate seeing it on cigarettes, napkins and coffee cups! I don't like women with all their beauty machinery showing-curlers, cold cream, mascara brushes. I'd even prefer to not see a woman touch up her lipstick, but I guess that's expecting too much.

  Kirk Douglas

  Sorry, Hate, Coffee

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• If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Cancer, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that's just not life.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Party, Alcohol, Cheese

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."

  Astra Taylor

  America, People, Rose

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If the price of the drug people want to use is through the roof, well then they're going to have to commit crimes to get the money to get the drug. You don't see any crimes committed over a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of beer, do you?

  Jesse Ventura

  Beer, People, Drug

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since sugar consumption is only one of a number of indices of wealth, the same sort of association (to coronary disease) exists with fat consumption, cigarette smoking, cars.

  John Yudkin

  Dark, Numbers, Car

  John Yudkin (1972). “Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers”

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• I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

  Matt Damon

  Hypnosis, Should Have, Years

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• And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

  Jules Laforgue

  Health, Noses, Slender

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• Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Interrogation Techniques, Ideas, Faces

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• The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.

  June Allyson

  Stars, Children, Coffee

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

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• I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Years, Smoking

  "Sane Man". Stand-up show, 1989.

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• Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Father, Years

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• Vaporizers are good for your lungs. Cigarette smoke will kill you. I never heard of anybody dying from marijuana smoke. Vaporizers I think are smarter.

  Willie Nelson

  Marijuana, Thinking, Cigarette Smoke

  Source: www.celebstoner.com

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