Drug Quotes - Page 37

• Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it

  Bill O'Reilly

  Thinking, Alcohol, African American

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• As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Thinking, People, Tragic

  "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne's Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, Heeb Magazine, January 20, 2009.

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• I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

  Joe Morton

  Thinking, Needs, Culture

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• I will try to hold on to the intense feeling. I will both be glad that that’s no longer happening and kind of miss it. When you’re 14, you’re basically on drugs all the time - the hormones in your body are so crazy. But I really loved and appreciated the intensity of that. And you’re experiencing everything for the first time, so everything feels like an epiphany. And, like, I really liked the experience of having a crush, because I was like, this is my thing and it doesn’t have to do with you and you’re just some dummy boy for me to project on.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Crush, Crazy, Boys

  "At 18, Tavi Gevinson Is a Fashion Veteran—and a Broadway Rookie". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.thecut.com. August 10, 2014.

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• The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

  Danny Trejo

  Dealer, Laborers, Robbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?

  Carl Sagan

  Marijuana, People, Dying

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• Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.

  Keith Richards

  Guy, Fame, Hendrix

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• Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.

  Gale Harold

  Criticism, Wish, Gone

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

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• I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.

  Timothy Leary

  Intelligent, Use, Favors

  "Chaos & cyber culture". Book by Timothy Leary, 1994.

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• There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

  Timothy Leary

  Stupid, People, Use

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• President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

  Tony Snow

  Fighting, President, Hiv

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• I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

  Morgan Brittany

  Sleep, Eye, Knowing

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• What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

  Samantha Morton

  Circles, People, Needs

  "Actor Morton tells of teenage criminal record" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

  John Waters

  Kids, Dealer, Addict

  "The People's Pervert" by Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff

  Tommy Kirk

  New Life, Stuff, Hell

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• It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

  Artie Lange

  Running, Problem

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• There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to prison with a snorkel duct-taped to their mouth and me s***ing down that Snorkel

  Ice Cube

  Giving, Alcohol, Rumor

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• You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

  David Gilmour

  Fall, Guitar, Volume

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• I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.

  Ringo Starr

  Meditation, Fans

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• Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about.

  Ed Westwick

  Song, Heartbeat, Capture

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• Religion is bad and drugs are good.

  Bill Maher

  "Bill Maher's 'View': Church Going Old Ladies 'Enablers' to Religious Violence". www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2007.

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• If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs. It is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Decision, Rich

  "Gingrich Suggests Tough Drug Measure". www.nytimes.com. August 27, 1995.

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• Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

  Mel Carnahan

  War, Commitment, Successful

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• Trends toward increasing numbers of infection and increasing drug resistance show no sign of abating.

  Joshua Sharfstein

  Numbers, Trends, Resistance

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• What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.

  John P. Walters

  Commitment, Views, Law

  "Bush's drugs boss is unfit for office, say civil rights groups" Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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