Drug Quotes - Page 39

• It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

  Aimee Mann

  People, Perfect, Addiction

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• Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

  Layne Staley

  Reality, Light, Addiction

  "Layne Staley Unchained". Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29, April 1995.

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• Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.

  Will Self

  Procrastination, Drug Use, Hands

  Will Self (2012). “Junk Mail: Reissued”, p.5, A&C Black

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• I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Girlfriend, Mistake

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• I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

  John Shirley

  Writing, Drunk, Drink

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• You can tell when someone has been on steroids A guy bulks up, has a new body and never gets tired...You see these guys or girls who come onto the tour talking about their new training programs and their diets where they eat this or that new thingbut they'll never tell you about the drugs they took.

  John McEnroe

  Girl, Tired, Talking

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• When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia
  (former Grateful Dead guitarist) destroyed his life on
  drugs. And yet hes being honored, like some godlike
  figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Grateful, Priorities, Figures

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• Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her sketchbook: Remain orderly in your life so you can be free and chaotic in your work. I think basically you lose it when you destroy your brain or destroy yourself emotionally or burn yourself up.

  Thom Yorke

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Brain

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• Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Country, Marijuana, Violence

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• I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

  Mike Tyson

  Suicide, Fun, Real

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Suicide, Loss, Law

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• Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.

  Robertson Davies

  Lying, Book, Reality

  "Tempest-Tost". Book by Robertson Davies, Part 6, 1951.

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• Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?

  Frank Zappa

  Yuppies, People, Hatred

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• I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.

  Richard Bacon

  Regret, Mistake, Stupid

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• Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

  Camille Paglia

  Depression, Smart, Careers

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• I see exercise taking this perverted detour. The original intention of exercise was to heal and maintain health. Now I see it as having nothing to do with health. I see most exercises based on looking good. They actually make you less healthy. You overdevelop the obvious muscles. You take drugs to enhance that. You ignore the rest, and you become more out of balance.

  Bryan Kest

  Exercise, Healthy, Balance

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• When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path

  Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez

  Pregnancy, Kids, Alcohol

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• According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE

  Barbara Seaman

  Pregnancy, Men, Doctors

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• To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

  William Cowper

  Get Well, Recovery, Keys

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.15

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• Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Children, Cancer, Fighting

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• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Cancer, Fighting, Animal

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• I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.

  Dean Ornish

  Food, Health, Cutting

  "Hearts and Minds" by Roberto Suro, New York Times Magazine, December 29, 1991.

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• What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.

  Ann Coulter

  Self, Years, Wings

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• Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

  David Robertson

  Teenage, Gambling, Evil

  "Study: Internet gambling stakes are high". www.cnn.com. March 17, 2002.

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• I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants...it's the gateway drug to no sex.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Sex, Firsts

  "Tabloid tales from LA LA Land: 3am's round-up of this week's US celeb mags" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. September 26, 2013.

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