Cocaine Quotes - Page 11

• I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

  A.C. Grayling

  Science, People, Tree

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• When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Flare Up, Drug, Groups

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid.

  Tommy Shaw

  Stupid, Should Have, Feel Good

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time.

  Robert Plant

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

  James E. Faust

  Philosophy, Addiction, Drug

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• Space tourism is God's way of telling you you aren't spending enough on lap dances, baccarat and cocaine.

  Bill Maher

  Space, Tourism, Lap

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• Amy Winehouse's mother wrote an open letter to the News of the World newspaper telling Amy she's worried about her and to please call her. I doubt this is the best way to communicate with Amy - she should try spelling it out in lines of cocaine.

  Chelsea Handler

  Mother, Doubt, Trying

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• I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.

  Artie Lange

  Careers, Two, Mad

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• The dramatically different manner in which we, as a nation, responded to the crisis presented by drunk driving and the crisis caused by the emergence of crack cocaine speaks volumes about who we value, and who we view as disposable.

  Michelle Alexander

  Views, Drunk, Different

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Holiday, Two, Cracks

  Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.

  Kabir Sehgal

  People, Brain, Making Money

  Source: www.choprafoundation.org

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• I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.

  Brittany Murphy

  Heart, Thinking, Way

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• I played a major role in the spread of crack cocaine, the marketing of crack cocaine, the glamorization of crack cocaine. But it's hard to say that it was totally my fault. My judge in Cincinnati told me, "Mr. Ross, I know that the prosecutor and the media and the DEA all want to blame you for this problem, but I sentenced my first drug dealer the year you were born, so I know you're not the cause. This is a problem we've had since before you were born."

  Rick Ross

  Media, Years, Judging

  Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org

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• To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

  Jeremy Brett

  Long Ago, Important, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Party, Drug, Problem

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• Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia.
  Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

  U-God

  Rap, Mma, Giving

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• In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chilies , a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Coffee, Eggs, Two

  "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson".

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• I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sleep, Swimming, Dna

  "Ozzy Osbourne genome sequenced" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.

  Zadie Smith

  Sweet, Grandmother, People

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.161, Vintage

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• [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.

  Terry Eagleton

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Silver Platter, Florida

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• Driving that train, high on cocaine
  Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed
  Trouble ahead, trouble behind
  And you know that notion just crossed my mind

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Mind, Watches

  "Casey Jones" (song) (1971)

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• The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives... The sun will burn you by day and the cold will shrivel you by night. You'll be racked by fever and tormented by a hundred discomforts, but you'll go on. For when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine... it's a sort of madness.

  Susan Orlean

  Falling In Love, Night, Men

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• The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.

  Frank Zappa

  Numbers, Air, Play

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