Smoking Quotes - Page 39

• I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

  Mark Twain

  Broken, Months, Principles

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.266, University of Missouri Press

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• Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

  Dean Ornish

  Stress, Healing, Sadness

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• The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Ocean, Past

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• Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Dirty, Hazards, Literature

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• I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I'd make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid.

  Groucho Marx

  Morning, Kids, World

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

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• People who smoke cigarettes, they say "You don't know how hard it is to quit smoking." Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing.

  Mitch Hedberg

  People, Quitting, Cigarette

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• I stopped smoking weed for my kids. One day, we were driving and you could smell it from somewhere. My daughter asked what the smell was so I told her it was a skunk. Then she said, 'Sometimes Daddy smells like that!' to me and my wife. So I knew I had to quit.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Daughter, Weed, Kids

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• Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Children, Air, Breathing

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• I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.

  Eden Robinson

  Two, Missing, Four

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Drinking, Nerves, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Make no mistake about it: Legalization is not about, you know, Cheech & Chong smoking marijuana or, you know, a Grateful Dead concert; it's about creating the next Marlboro of our time, the next Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, the Big Tobacco all over again.

  Kevin Sabet

  Mistake, Grateful, Marijuana

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  School, Ghetto, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the guy to do it. That was great.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ideas, Guy, Needs

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You've got guys on freeways with motorbikes with no helmets on, you can't drink until you're 21 and we wonder why so many youth are smoking f - ing cannabis, and you can start driving here at 15. How f - ed up is that?

  Chelsea Handler

  Guy, Driving, Youth

  Source: variety.com

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• There's a price you pay for drinking too much, for eating too much sugar, smoking too much marijuana, using too much cocaine, or even drinking too much water. All those things can mess you up, especially, drinking too much L.A. water ... or Love Canal for that matter. But, if people had a better idea of what moderation is really all about, then some of these problems would ... If you use too much of something, your body's just gonna go the "Huh? ... Duh!"

  Frank Zappa

  Drinking, Marijuana, Ideas

  Source: afka.net

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• To me, smoking pot meant sitting with a newspaper on my legs, rolling the seeds down, pulling the twigs out and finally producing a perfectly cylindrical, absolutely wonderful joint that you either locked at both ends or pinched off, or pinched at one end and left open at the other.

  George Carlin

  Rolling, Sitting, Legs

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff!

  Alexander Weinstein

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Teacher

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A lot of kids were involved in such things as smoking weed and doing things illegal. I kind of fell into the crowd so to speak. Guys got tangled in some of those activities, and like I said I should have stayed away from it.

  John Starks

  Weed, Kids, Should Have

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I regret starting drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and joining Facebook.

  Berhan Ahmed

  Regret, Drinking, Alcohol

  Source: www.vice.com

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• You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Kids, Years, Two

  "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2003.

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• I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

  Donny Osmond

  Drinking, Grateful, Skeletons

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• We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

  Martha Plimpton

  Real, People, Want

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• I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

  Elvis Presley

  Strong, Marijuana, Thinking

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• My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.

  Jason Reitman

  Thank You, Writing, Voice

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• The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Gun, Marijuana, Clouds

  "Was Rice the Victim of Liberal Racism and Sexism?" by Byron Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2014.

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