Getting High Quotes - Page 6

• Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Goal, Might, Oneself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

  Lewis Hine

  Children, Work, Society

  Lewis Wickes Hine, John R. Kemp (1986). “Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Anger, House, Littles

  Helen Oyeyemi (2007). “The Icarus Girl”, p.189, Anchor

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• I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

  Tom Sizemore

  Hollywood, Actors, Want

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• I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too.

  Cory Monteith

  School, Kids, Thinking

  "Cory Monteith's Turning Point". Interview with Shawna Malcom, parade.com. June 24, 2011.

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• He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

  Nick Faldo

  Sports, Golf, Long

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• I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.

  Layne Staley

  Hurt, Pain, Mistake

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• The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth.

  Varg Vikernes

  Tattoo, Black, Dresses

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• Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Disappointment, Winning

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• You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Government, Way, Hours

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• The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Power, Giving, Political

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• The problem with Mr. Obama is that you get more regulation and it's a disincentive for businessmen to hire people. You probably also get higher taxes, so in terms of the economy, he is very negative in my view.

  Marc Faber

  Views, People, Negative

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• High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

  Joseph Barbera

  Thrill, Levels, Way

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Real, Dancing

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• Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

  Alexander Elder

  Business, Odds, Challenges

  Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs.

  David Sheff

  Weekend, Marijuana, Addiction

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• Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Smart, Care, Yeah

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Boys, Alcohol, Drug

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• The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Luxury, Wages, Agents

  William Graham Sumner (1914). “The challenge of facts: and other essays”

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• One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.

  Jon Postel

  Home, Way, Speed

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• I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

  Tyne Daly

  Morning, Sorry, Fog

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

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• With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.

  Brian Baird

  Jail, Choices, Clear

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• I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

  Thomas Piketty

  Thinking, Average, Order

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". Interview with The Associated Press, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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• People come to me with ideas for shows, and I certainly am thinking of stuff all the time. And it's always like, you know, "Get high and drive a car!" Or "Get high and do this or that." It's always things like, "Well, that's a terrible idea to get high and do that." So, when they came to me with this, I was like, "Well, you're just sitting there and discussing cases."

  Doug Benson

  Thinking, Ideas, Car

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Book, Clubs, Medical

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