Smoking Quotes - Page 29

• Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

  Curtis LeMay

  Self, Wicked, Half

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• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  John Lennon

  People, Hypocrisy, Insecurity

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• I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.

  Ryan Lewis

  Drinking, Writing, Creativity

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.

  Jack White

  Drinking, Play, Rocks

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Giving, Cigarette

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

  Anjelica Huston

  Giving Up, Years, Miracle

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• There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Gas, Chamber, No Smoking

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• An old interview of Arnold Schwartzenegger has surfaced where he admits to smoking a lot of pot and having sex with hookers. Finally a Republican all Californians can get behind.

  David Letterman

  Sex, Interviews, Republican

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• Go early to bed. Start maybe working out a little sooner. Stay patient. Stop smoking.

  Nicolas Colsaerts

  Work Out, Littles, Bed

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• Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Doe, Pounds, Week

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• You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Home, Mean, Thinking

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• It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Baby, Flying, May

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar - a bar! - because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free "workspace." Ah, bartenders, those health nuts.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hands, Nuts, Ideas

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• These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

  Ellen Goodman

  Cancer, People, Tobacco Industry

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• Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.

  Sara Coleridge

  Ice, Expectations, Feelings

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.145

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• A club there is of smokers--dare you come
  To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room?
  When, midnight past, the very candles seem
  Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam;
  When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise,
  And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.

  George Crabbe

  Eye, Past, Air

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.180

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• But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Food, Cutting

  Herman Melville (2015). “MOBY-DICK (WITH NOTES)(BIOGRAPHY)(ILLUSTRATED): OR, THE WHALE”, p.100, Rastro Digital

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• Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

  Kathryn Hughes

  Real, Food, Autumn

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• I've been blamed for everything, from smoking to heroin to anorexia.

  Kate Moss

  Anorexia, Heroin

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• When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Successful, Names

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.307, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

  Tupac Shakur

  Drinking, Jail, Just Being

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• I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.

  Lenny Bruce

  Half, Buzz, Facts

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Alcohol, Meals

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• It is a dichotomous time where the younger generation is perceived as free. But smoking pot is not being free. Taking drugs is not being free. I feel that being courteous and telling your dad, 'I'm going to have a drink' with your dad saying 'give me one too' is cool. That's being freer, happier and nicer. But having issues and saying that 'I am my own person, I am moving out Mom!' is not. Yes, if your mom tells you to move out then that's being free.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Mom, Dad, Moving

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