Drug Quotes - Page 18

• Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Entering, Paradise

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• I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Music, Regret, Thinking

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• Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

  Noel Gallagher

  Music, Morning, Tea

  "Noel Gallagher: Top 10 one-liners from the Oasis guitarist" by Beth Hardie, www.mirror.co.uk. October 8, 2008.

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• The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Government, Law, America

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2008.

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• Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know?...I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.'

  George H. W. Bush

  Offering, White, House

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• I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication...Not easy. There's an entire wall of products you need. You stand there going,"Well, this one is quick acting but this is long lasting...Which is more important, the present or the future?"

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Change, Wall, Long

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• Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?

  Tom Armstrong

  Funny, Christmas, Cities

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• Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Money, Children, Character

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• The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

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• She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

  Ann Brashares

  Weakness, Toxic, Worst

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• I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.

  John Green

  Love You, Gateways

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.64, Penguin

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• He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.” “That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Pain, Tired

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.642, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed. What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?

  Melvin Burgess

  Dream, Thinking, Yesterday

  Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.167, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.

  John Green

  Couple, Team, Missing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.107, Penguin

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• but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

  Rachel Caine

  Optimism, Sometimes, Effects

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Windfall”, p.173, Allison & Busby

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• I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Powerful, Mean

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.

  Meg Cabot

  Black, Brooklyn, Necklaces

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

  Anais Nin

  Creativity, Reality, Synthesis

  "The Novel of the Future". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Heart, People

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.142, Crown/Archetype

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• ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Ambition, Soul

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.4

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• No. This has to do with drugs." My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?" She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are." "I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.

  Darynda Jones

  Ideas, Together, Mouths

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• Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

  Paul McCartney

  Children, Adults, Animation

  "Analysis: Predictable Golden Globes Honor 'Avatar'" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. January 18, 2010.

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• Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Giving, Poppies, Relief

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.53, F+W Media, Inc.

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