Cocaine Quotes - Page 6

• I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.

  Paul McCartney

  Crazy, Thinking, Sgt Pepper

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• I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why should the motion-picture industry be responsible for our morality? Dad says to Mom, `SCARFACE is in town.' `What's it about?' `Human scum who kill each other over cocaine deals.' `Sounds great! Let's take the kids!'

  Ian Shoales

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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• Food is not simply nutritional cocaine that I'm injecting in my body. It is about a relationship I have with myself, how I see myself, what I want from myself.

  Ronald M. Shaich

  Body, Want

  "How Panera's CEO Keeps It Real". Interview with Candice Choi, www.inc.com. August 29, 2016.

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• I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

  Jonah Hill

  Dream, Mean, Kids

  "Jonah Hill: ‘Being Shot In Slow Motion Doing Cocaine By Martin Scorsese’ Was Acting Dream" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

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• Suffice it to say that Wall Street investors in the drug industries have used the government to unleash and transform their economic power into political and global military might; never forget, America is not an opium or cocaine producing nation, and narcotic drugs are a strategic resource, upon which all of the above industries - including the military - depend. Controlling the world's drug supply, both legal and illegal, is a matter of national security.

  Douglas Valentine

  Wall, Military, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up.

  George Carlin

  Drug, Albums, Peyote

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

  Stephen King

  War, Eight, Years

  "Part two of the full Stephen King interview". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

  Scott Stossel

  Father, Ideas, Drug

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• Hey @justinbieber, how much are you paying your friend for pretending that it was HIS cocaine, and taking the fall for you?

  Jared Padalecki

  Fall, Hey, Pretending

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2014

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• I had a dream once. I wanted to do a line of cocaine off a hooker's ass. That's when I realized, 'Hey, I'm freakin' Zach Braff.' I did it the next morning.

  Zach Braff

  Dream, Morning, Hey

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• I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

  Elton John

  Alcohol, Drug, Pills

  Song: Rotten Peaches Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Madman Across the Water

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• Being a model seems like a dream job - lots of new clothes, cocaine, dates with Leonardo DiCaprio. But that's just for lady models.

  Peter Sagal

  Dream, Jobs, Clothes

  "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 1, 2016.

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• Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"

  Linda Ronstadt

  Real, Talking, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Years, Bird, Sunrise

  "Valerie Bertinelli About Divorce From Eddie Van Halen: 'I Wasn't An Angel Either'". www.foxnews.com. February 26, 2008.

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• We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Two, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

  Merle Haggard

  Names, Alcohol, Heaven

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• Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but my drug use challenged what I thought about cocaine. Because I would accept when I would say, "What happened to that person?" and someone would say, "They started using cocaine...they went downhill..." I would just accept that, even though I had a different experience and all these other people had a different experience. But I would throw that out because I thought my experience was an aberration.

  Carl Hart

  Drug Use, Data, Different Experiences

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Don't do cocaine. Don't race trains. And avoid AIDS situations.

  Charlie Munger

  Race, Aids, Situation

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• I was incredibly confident on stage because that's where I loved to be. But offstage, there was no balance. I was a little shy kid that went onstage. And I always said, cocaine was the drug that made me open up. I could talk to people. But then it became the drug that closed me down. So it started out by making me talk to everyone, and then ended up by me isolating myself alone with it; which is the end of the world, really.

  Elton John

  Kids, People, Drug

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Personality

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• (After getting out of another treatment center) I came home one Sunday morning. I sat on the edge of my bed. I never grew up going to church. I never read a Bible. I wasn't anti-God. I just never thought about God. I just lived for myself and thought about myself...I was married by this point. I'd been married for two years. So, here I am sitting on the edge of my bed, nine o'clock Sunday morning. I have a son who's not quite two yet and I just broke down crying because I had been out all weekend doing cocaine.

  Jay Haizlip

  Morning, Home, Son

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering people. What I've noticed in my overuse of cocaine is the period of pleasure versus the period of pain. That is to say that when you first get high on anything, the pleasure is predominant and you don't pay much price. A little hangover or whatever it might be with another drug. But after a while the ratio begins to change, and there' s far more pain in the deal than pleasure. It just completely goes in another direction.

  George Carlin

  Pain, Moving, Hangover

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• Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Party, Bored, Lines

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• People might get mad for five or ten minutes, but then they respect you more. And the next time they see you, they'll tell their friends, "Don't go up to him with that stuff - he don't mess with cocaine."

  Moses Malone

  People, Mad, Might

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• I’m not going to let go of you. I’m going to hold you all night. So go ahead and feel whatever you feel. If you’re still craving cocaine, go ahead. You’re safe. You can crave it all you want, but I won’t let go, and if you still feel like you can’t trust yourself in the morning, and it’s what you want, I’ll drive you to rehab myself. Okay?" ~ Max

  Josh Lanyon

  Letting Go, Morning, Night

  Josh Lanyon (2011). “Come Unto These Yellow Sands”, p.98, Samhain Publishing

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