Drug Quotes - Page 25

• The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Greatness, Boxing

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• Drug dealers live vicariously through me

  Drake

  Humble, Bragging, Dealer

  Song: Say What's Real, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love.

  Drake

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Wine, Alcohol

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• Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.

  Michael Josephson

  Humor, Eye, Practice

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• From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Alcohol, Hiv

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.

  John Van de Kamp

  Humor, Past, Alcohol

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• Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Law, Alcohol

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money.

  Peggy Noonan

  Humor, Men, Law

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

  Roger Mahony

  Healing, Alcohol, Church

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• And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Motivational, Athlete, Responsibility

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• Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

  Kyan Douglas

  Alcohol, Drugs And Alcohol, Destructive

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

  Harvey Martin

  Appreciate, Alcohol, Abuse

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• I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Dream, Lonely, Thinking

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• If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

  Penn Jillette

  Wine, Order, Alcohol

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

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• In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Athlete, Reality, Alcohol

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• Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Kids, Alcohol, Trying

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• My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

  Gregory Hines

  Dream, Anger, Character

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• Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

  Carre Otis

  Ice Cream, Alcohol, Eating Disorder

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• People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

  Don Johnson

  Divorce, People, Alcohol

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

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• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Numbers, Goal, Priorities

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• Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

  Keith Henson

  Recovery, Long, People

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• That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

  Ringo Starr

  Recovery, Cutting, Alcohol

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• The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

  Gerald McRaney

  Alcohol, Abuse, Trying

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• The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

  Timothy Leary

  Discovery, Alcohol, Mind

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