Cocaine Quotes - Page 8

• Ron Paul is in favor of letting states legalize marijuana, prostitution, and cocaine. So even if he doesn't win, that's going to be one heck of an election night party.

  Jay Leno

  Party, Winning, Marijuana

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• When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him.

  Moses Malone

  Thinking, Getting High, Wells

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

  Moses Malone

  Drinking, Drug, Want

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

  James Garner

  Marijuana, Years, Alcohol

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

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• For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

  Felix Dennis

  Long, People, Risk

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.49, Penguin

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• I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Cliffs, Rappelling, Pure

  Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

  Kenneth Anger

  Mirrors, Views, Jeans

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• Conoco will build a $75 million plant to see if a process to convert natural gas to liquid fuel is profitable. It has to be. In California, gasoline is so expensive that people are trying to run their cars on cocaine.

  Argus Hamilton

  Running, California, People

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• Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

  Martin Mayer

  Cracks, Banking, Finance

  Martin Mayer (1990). “The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry”, Scribner Book Company

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• I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.

  Moses Malone

  Trying, Want, Pay

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• I don't do any Class A - especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.

  Kate Moss

  Class, People, Doe

  Channel 4 on the BBC, 1994.

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• I've had every known chemical - cocaine, booze - and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Suggestions, Watches, World

  Launch.com, October 10, 2003.

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• While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

  Byron White

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

  Harmelin v. Michigan 501 U.S. 957 at 1023, 1991.

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• I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin.

  Tommy Lee

  Heroin

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• Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

  K Callan

  Sacrifice, Drug, Cost

  K. Callan (1993). “The Script is finished, now what do I do?.: the scriptwriter's resource book & agent guide”, Sweden Pr

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• At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

  C. Everett Koop

  Government, Hypocrisy, United States

  "How Alexander Cockburn Helped Me Take on the War on Drugs" by Brian McKenna, www.counterpunch.org. August 12, 2013.

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• Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.

  David Mitchell

  Party, Believe, Worry

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• Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

  Chevy Chase

  Hurt, Guy, Mind

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• My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired a certain way, how I wouldn't be able to drink and do drugs the same way my friends got to.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

  Keith Ablow

  Church, Littles

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• Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished.

  Mike Tyson

  Opportunity, Blood, Drug

  "Beyonce And Jay Z Spotted At Vegan Restaurant Cafe Gratitude On His Birthday". “Oprah: Where Are They now?”, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• My view on global warming is that it's a gigantic financial scam to funnel money to these countries that think they ostensibly are going to use to improve conditions in their country, environmentally and so on, but officials use - I guess apparently Tiger Woods did - to hire hookers, ride around in limos and in cases of some of these diplomats and some of these countries buy cocaine.

  Don Imus

  Country, Thinking, Views

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• Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

  Eyedea

  Love Is, Men, Names

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• "He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck."

  Scott McClanahan

  Book, Ducks, Psychosis

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.

  Jean Genet

  Body, Adrift, Untouchables

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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