Smoking Quotes - Page 14

• In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which get such a hold on men today. I do not say that to be a contemplative one absolutely has to go without smoking or without alcohol, but certainly one must be able to use these things without being dominated by an uncontrolled need for them.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Contemplative Life, Self

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  Ed Markey

  Fire, Causes, Common

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• It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Self Understanding, Effort

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". Book by Charles Duhigg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.

  Bill Hicks

  Cancer, Heart, Redneck

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• By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

  C. Everett Koop

  War, Years, People

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• Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

  Kent Haruf

  Men, House, Kitchen

  FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from Oct 29, 2011

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Cigarette, Smoking Cigarettes, Preaching

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• It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

  Aviva Cantor

  Animal, Hunting, Lynching

  "The Club, the Yoke, and the Leash: What We Can Learn From the Way a Culture Treats Animals". Ms. magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, August 1983.

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• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Running, Cancer, Radiation

  Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, 35, July 19, 1961.

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• I was in college, it was my first year of college when I got the show, so I've been kinda' partying a lot and drinking a lot and I've never been stoned and when I got the show I got really serious... So I kinda stop drinking, cold turkey so I had never been stoned until... It's something that happened with Mila and Ashton.

  Topher Grace

  Weed, Party, Drinking

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• We've legalized marijuana recently. Medical marijuana, but the rest will come.

  Susan Sarandon

  Weed, Marijuana, Medical

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• If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weed, Marijuana, Relief

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• I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these gangs, and I look back at Prohibition. When we didn't allow alcohol, what did we have? We had gangs. We had big gangs. It's something that needs to be discussed a little more. It's an economic issue and a violence issue.

  Michael Douglas

  Weed, Marijuana, Issues

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• If I'm going to be totally honest, I don't think that smoking weed is that big a deal.

  Chloe Madeley

  Weed, Marijuana, Thinking

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• Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.

  Alan Cinis

  Weed, Marijuana, Guilty

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• Our parents had to drive us to the gig, or even go in with us because of the liquor laws. The owners were really scared to death that we'd drink. We usually just went out somewhere and smoked weed. I don't smoke anymore, but back then we used to smoke quite a lot.

  Dexter Romweber

  Weed, Marijuana, Law

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• I don't know what my assistant would do besides get me pot.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Weed, Marijuana, Assistants

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• Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

  Frank Dobson

  People, Dying, Gaps

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• Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment.

  Victoria Wood

  Funny, Sex, Couple

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• A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."

  James Keller

  Life, Men, Blue

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• I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Thinking, Guy

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• This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

  Renny Harlin

  Marijuana, Talking, People

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• I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Brother, Marijuana, Thinking

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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• The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

  Beth Orton

  Couple, Marijuana, Light

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