Drug Quotes - Page 7

• A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, People, Politics

  Senate hearing on Porn Rock and the PMRC, 1985.

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• Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

  David Sheff

  Caring, Addiction, Alcohol

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, Kids, Thinking

  "Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2014.

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• Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Children

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2014

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• During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.

  Bill Toomey

  Fashion, Drug Use, Use

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• Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

  Christopher Lasch

  Overcoming Addiction, Our Society, Form

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• I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, Directors, Film

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• It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

  John B. Larson

  Interest

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• I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

  Marion Jones

  Sports, Facts, Drug Free

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

  George Henry Borrow

  Literature, Losing, Trade

  'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 30.

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• I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts.

  Amy Sedaris

  People, Type, Wells

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• Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Humor, Alcohol

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• Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Moving, Portraits, World

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• The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

  Tom Verlaine

  Song, Love Is, Venus De Milo

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• The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

  Henry Moore

  Change, Creativity, Creative

  "Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions". Book by Eric Maisel, ‎Ann Maisel, p. 95, 2010.

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• In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Modern, Individual, Pharmacology

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• Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

  George Farquhar

  Poetry, Mere

  'Love and a Bottle' (1698) act 3, sc. 2.

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• Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Problem, Colombia, Process

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• And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

  Mort Kondracke

  Medicine, Demise, Cures

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• I don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer.

  Jason Mewes

  Thinking, Drug Dealers, Dealer

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

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• Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

  Chuck Grassley

  Integrity, Secret, Fundamentals

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• The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Time, Book, Writing

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• Viagra is a drug, just like cocaine. It can cause you to become addicted.

  Jackie Collins

  Humor, Alcohol, Viagra

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• Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

  Salvador Dali

  Artist, Hallucinogens, Take Me

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, (p. 737), 2012.

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• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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