Pot Quotes - Page 7

• When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to control clay, to put it where you want it and not just wherever it wanted to go, and that was valuable. At the end of about six months, though, I think if that was all we had, we may have been inclined to leave because the workshop did not challenge us so much as living with [Bernard] Leach did.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Challenges, Clay

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We did respect [Bernard Leach], although we also were willing to challenge ideas and at least put forth our feelings about the way the pottery was run, about things that were done, about the pots we were making, etc. And we would get into sometimes some very fierce arguments. We'd be shouting at one another because of disagreements.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Running, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• When Bernard [Leach] wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Book, Personality, Clay

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Years, Clay, Arriving

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• The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot.

  George Carlin

  Important, Rolling, Cleaning

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

  George Carlin

  Strong, New York, Marijuana

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito] Mussolini, and Pol Pot. We're the book burners.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Book, Dying, Lists

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.

  Gilberto Gil

  Quality, Mixing, Culture

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• I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.

  Gilberto Gil

  Thinking, Civilization, Race

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• [Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.

  William S. Burroughs

  Alcohol, Political, Movement

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society. WE have so many cultures here in the US and they all bring something new to their religious experiences.

  Sally Quinn

  Religious, Culture, Melting

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.

  Harry Elfont

  Weed, Wall, Smoking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Drug, Needs

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  Dolores Huerta

  Running, Significant Change, Rainbow

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• I smoke a little pot, every day, and I'm healthy as can be.

  Tommy Chong

  Healthy, Littles, Smoke

  Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!

  Tommy Chong

  America, Borders, Bags

  Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• You got a bag of pot, there's someone who wants to buy it from you. So in a weird way, marijuana has [become] and is becoming the new currency of the world.

  Tommy Chong

  Marijuana, Bags, World

  Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I had these couple of hippie guy friends who were super broke and living in the attic of somebody's house and they were like, "We don't have any food, man." And so I decided to go to the grocery store and steal chicken pot pie. And I stuck it inside my clothes. I took a couple frozen chicken pot pies and stuck them inside my pants, and I got caught walking out of the store. And they took me in the back room, and - luckily, I was 14, but I had a fake ID saying I was 18, so they didn't call my parents.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Couple, Hippie, Men

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all of whom are making pots. And these people had families, children, and they had to have a wage that would allow them to raise their family and they had to get a paycheck every Friday afternoon. So if we had not made pots that would sell it, would not have been possible for these people to be employed.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Friday, Children, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We could make our own pots on the weekends and in the evenings, and we used to do that, and these would be fired in the big kiln, along with all the standard ware that we were producing, but this wasn't quite what we had expected when we read The Potters Book.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Book, Weekend, Would Be

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Masterpiece

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• If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, People, Alcohol

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

  George Carlin

  Hurt, Clever, Kids

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• I never think of people's nationality too much. I always look at everybody the same. It's impossible for me to just say one group of people over separate groups of people. Maybe it's because I was raised in New York City which is this melting pot. Everybody was always the same and the whole point of my whole film existence was to say that we're just one race.

  Vin Diesel

  New York, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I think it's true about people now being closer to their parents, since the '60s, really. The parents are no longer from a different planet, the 1950s ideas of American family. We could be friends with our parents. After the '60s, it wasn't like a person smoking pot was what the parents would be appalled at.

  Tama Janowitz

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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