Smoke Quotes - Page 21

• Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Years, People, Alcohol

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• Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Lawyer, Deals

  Attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in "Watergate and the White House" by Edward W. Knappman, p. 100, 1973.

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  I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Workout, Lying, Glasses

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• I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

  Mike Huckabee

  Mean, Home, Air

  "Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on the campaign trail". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. October 31, 2007.

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• There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Thinking, Wilderness, Chimneys

  Remarks at University of Chicago, January 14, 1966.

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• Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

  Molly Ivins

  War, Female, Profile

  "He Loves Us Not" by Molly Ivins, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

  Raul Julia

  Becoming One, Worry, Cuban Cigars

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• Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

  Raul Julia

  Cuban Cigars, Pay, Therapy

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Determination, Brother

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• Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

  Florence King

  Morning, Sex, Cigarette Smoke

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Order, Way, Miserable

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• Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Immature, Environmental, Tissues

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• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Funny, Artist, People

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• An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

  Melissa Leo

  School, Play, Acting

  "Melissa Leo’s Golden Moment". Interview With Daniel D’addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, President, Care

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• There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

  Alison Lurie

  Sweet, War, Smell

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

  Loretta Lynn

  Mom, Mother, Barns

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.31, Vintage

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  They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Mean, Marijuana

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• I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

  Thomas Mann

  Men, Mouths, Safe

  Thomas Mann (1969). “The Magic Mountain”, Vintage

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• The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Fall, People

  "Net Surf", www.wired.com. December 1, 1995.

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• What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

  Bruno Mars

  Mirrors, Guy, Raw Talent

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• I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

  Chris Martin

  Drug, Drink

  "Happy landings" by Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

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• A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Women

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

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• Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

  Robert Mugabe

  Inspirational, Exercise, Vegetables

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