Drug Quotes - Page 14

• Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

  Adam Rickitt

  Break Up, Community, Ruins

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• I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

  Tim Robbins

  Kids, Used, Dangerous

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• Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Pimp

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• For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Years, Long

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• I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

  Henry Rollins

  Party, Talking, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

  Leo Rosten

  Powerful, Men, Most Powerful

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• Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Interesting, Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol

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• President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won’t admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Senior, Eight, Average

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

  Rick Scott

  People, Study, Welfare

  "Rick Scott says welfare recipients are more likely to use illicit drugs" by Aaron Sharockman, www.politifact.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

  Will Self

  Thinking, Names, Ideas

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• While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Senior, Research And Development, Focus

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• I'm very fond of drugs.

  Grace Slick

  Affection

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• Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

  Layne Staley

  Woods, Week, Andrew

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• There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

  Layne Staley

  Use, Lasting, Stills

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• There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.

  Layne Staley

  Couple, Hands, Years

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• When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

  Paul Stanley

  Hurt, Creativity, Soul

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• Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Competition, Innovation

  "Exporting I.P". www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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• I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Serj Tankian

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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

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• When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

  Clarence Thomas

  Real, School, People

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• Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Moving, Addiction

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

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• The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Inspiration, Practice

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

  Steven Tyler

  Grateful, Doing Me, Aids

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• Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

  Steven Tyler

  Soul, Way, Stealing

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• We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

  Ville Valo

  Successful, Age, Playing Music

  The eFestivals Interview, www.efestivals.co.uk. February 6, 2004.

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