Smoking Quotes - Page 19

• People say that marijuana is going to hurt my career. On the contrary, my fight career is getting in the way of my marijuana smoking.

  Nick Diaz

  Hurt, Fighting, Marijuana

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• I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

  James D. Watson

  Law, Brain, Different

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• The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity.

  Robert Mitchum

  Marijuana, Boisterous, Release

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• I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

  James M. Barrie

  Mean, Slavery, Lasts

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• Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile. I am quite well aware of the hazards of smoking. Smoking is not a healthful pastime, it is true. Smoking is indeed no bracing dip in the ocean, no strenuous series of calisthenics, no two laps around the reservoir. On the other hand, smoking has to its advantage the fact that is a quiet pursuit. Smoking is, in effect a dignified sport.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sports, Growing Up, Fun

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.292, Vintage

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• If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?

  Jacob Sullum

  Jobs, Children, Practice

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• My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen beside the dirty dishes and smoking, me thinking of what to say next.

  Matthew Brannon

  Art, Dirty, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I loved playing (Aaron Echols on 'Veronica Mars.') I was really sad when I got my head blown off, but...that seems to happen to me. I seem to be murdered on all of these shows. But, okay, as long as the checks don't bounce, I'm all right with that. Besides, when Aaron Echols was killed, as I recall, he'd just had sex with a beautiful young girl, he was smoking a Cuban cigar and drinking a rare, 18-year-old brandy, and watching himself on television. If you gotta go, I think that's probably the way to go.

  Harry Hamlin

  Beautiful, Girl, Sex

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• Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  America, Sticks, Authority

  "You Live With It" by William F. Buckley, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 1, 2007.

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• I accept that keeping in shape doesn't come naturally, so I work hard. I hit the gym every day: Pilates, yoga, weights. I used to love wine but I've stopped drinking. I quit smoking and I'll never start again.

  Linda Evangelista

  Drinking, Yoga, Hard Work

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• I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.

  Chris Hayes

  Wall, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  New York, Cancer, Blood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Views, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Thinking, Issues

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

  Joe Eszterhas

  Acting, Phrases, Cigarette

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Sexy, Cancer, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, you know, or whatever else we want to do.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Drinking, Moving, Character

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• It's no good to shoot a guy anymore. It's not enough. Nobody is throwing anybody off of buildings after seeing these movies, but they are smoking after seeing some good-looking celebrity smoke.

  Chris Matthews

  Guy, Building, Looking Good

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Odd Things, Odd, These Days

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do something about glamourization of smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Said, Response, Studios

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and it's one I've experienced, and it's what's caused me to live in-with my voice maimed for the rest of my life.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Taken, Thinking, Voice

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.

  Joe Eszterhas

  People, Focus, Ordinary

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who has been smoking the night before.

  Chris Matthews

  Night, Smell, People

  "Joe Eszterhas". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Responsibility, People, Creative

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Views, Blood, Talking

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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