“I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.” MadeBlackHappenedDrugSpeedAddictDrug AddictBlack Beauty Author:John Waters
“Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.” IfsKindCan DoProudDrugCapableStressAddictDrug Addict Author:Bill James
“Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.” FunnyPoliticalPoliticsDemocracyDrugShootingPotNeedlesCocaineDopeDrug AddictionDrug AddictSacred CowsFunny Drug Author:Abbie Hoffman
“I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?” ThinkingMindLooksMeanPersonsEyeBabyDrugCriminalsDrunkCuteHomelessAddictDrug AddictPsychoticBaby PicturesCute Like Author:Dustin Hoffman
“No one wants to say they hate their own body. Many are scared that if they confide in others then people will look down on them. This is wrong. It's not weak to talk about it. On the contrary. It's the same with alcoholics and drug addicts - you have to be honest with yourself first. When you have accepted the negatives you can then focus on the positives, like, I have nice hair, nice eyes, great cheekbones.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsLooksBodyEyeHateFocusNiceHonestHairDrugWeakScaredContraryAcceptedBeing HonestAddictAlcoholicsDrug AddictHonest With YourselfBe Honest With YourselfCheekbonesNice Eyes Author:Crystal Renn
“When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.” ProblemCultureSocialReligiousEducationMoralSeriousDrugRacismAddictionGapsDrug AddictionDrug AddictSocial ProblemsMoral Education Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.” IfsShowsDrugHusbandPerformancesAddictionWork OutMy HusbandAddictDrug Addict Author:Whitney Houston
“When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.” FirstsKindMadeForceUnitedDrugJokesKingdomsSpiteHelpfulAddictDrug AddictUnited KingdomIndestructibleBlokes Author:Russell Brand
“Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.” DrugAddictionSelfishAddictDrug Addict Author:Liz Brixius
“After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.” WorldTwoFactsHomeTodaySchoolFacesWaterCrimeBrokenDrugLuckyNewsTrainStrikesEveningComing HomeNaziAddictAbsorbingDrug AddictMuggersLucky DayPower Failure Author:Barbara Tuchman
“Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.” WayI CanHardMightUsedLaughingTakenToo MuchStupidDrugMy FamilyAddictionLaughedGenesDrug AddictionDrug AddictCrackheads Author:Edgerrin James
“I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.” WeekDrugPrisonAddictDrug AddictRecovering Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal
“Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.” ThinkingPlayBigsDrugDecidedOppositesWinnerLoserAddictDrug Addict Author:Taryn Manning
“We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.” LooksAmericaArtistPovertyGenerationsPoetDrugTraditionSuicideAddictionDefeatListsFrustrationGreat ArtAlcoholismMy GenerationGreat ArtistDrug AddictionDrug AddictBest Poet Author:James Dickey
“There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.” ThinkingReasonWould BeTodayLevelsDrugAddictionNo ReasonDrug AddictionDrug Addict Author:George Will
“What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that..." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.” FirstsSongStuffWrittenHappenedHugeDrugFirst TimeMusicalUsualCriedAddictTabooDrug AddictPreview Author:Boy George
“Individual freedom and drug laws contradict each other. In a genuinely free society, people are free to ingest whatever they want to ingest, no matter how harmful or destructive. What people ingest is none of the government's business. If drug users or drug addicts wish to get help, a free society provides the means to do so.” PeopleIfsWantMeanMatterHelpingGovernmentLawIndividualWishDrugDestructiveUsersAddictFree SocietyDrug AddictIndividual FreedomDrug Laws Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.” DrugTraitsAddictHolmesDrug AddictAmiable Author:George Bernard Shaw
“So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies.” IfsKidsDrugFatsThese DaysAddictPuppyDrug Addict Author:Bill Maher
“A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.” MovingHouseDrugOppositesAddictionBoxesAddictDrug AddictRefrigerators Author:Demetri Martin
“I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.” PersonsFightingInvolvedDrugEverydayAddictGet InvolvedDrug AddictArgentina Author:Diego Maradona
“Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.” DrugOvercomingAddictionMexicoDrug AddictionDrug Addict Author:Chelsea Handler
“Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.” ArtImportantCareChurchHappenedDrugAddictDrug Addict Author:Claes Oldenburg
“I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something.” ThinkingPlayWould BeAbleStrongFunCrazyDrugAddictDrug Addict Author:Catherine Bell
“I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'” NamesWifeWorstFrontsDaughterAddictionMy WifeAlcoholRecoveryAddictDrug AddictionDrugs And AlcoholDrug AddictRehabRecoveringAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionWorst DayDrug Addiction RecoveryAddicts In RecoveryWife And DaughterAlcohol RecoveryDrug RecoveryHi My Name Is Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.” PeopleDoeWhiteStyleNew YorkDrugTreatsAddictionCaliforniaArticlesGoing OutTypicalSectionsAddictEmergenciesNew York TimesSuburbsEpidemicsHeroinHousewifePhiladelphiaAdmissionDrug AddictPathologyOverdoseHeroin Addiction Author:Ishmael Reed
“Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue.” BlackWhiteStudyIssuesDrugAbusePaintAddictionSubstanceCaliforniaPregnantWireDrug AddictionDrug AddictAbusersDrug AbuseSubstance Abuse Author:Ishmael Reed
“People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion to those under tremendous duress? There's this whole idea that you work really hard so you can deaden your soul to the universe and enjoy yourself only in ways the Sierra Club will let you. But what about enjoying yourself by getting into the whole melee of poverty and racism and violence and murder and drug addiction? Get in there, roll up your sleeves, and do something! Nobody does it.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsDoeIdeasSoulHardWholeUniverseEnjoyAnimalCompassionPovertyHellViolenceDrugRacismMurderAddictionClubsYour SoulSleevesDrug AddictionDrug AddictSierraEnjoy YourselfDuress Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.” DrugAlcoholExceptionAddictAlcoholicsNarcissisticDrug AddictInstabilityManicDepressive Author:T.C. Boyle
“From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.” HumansChildrenStoriesSufferingSituationClearSadnessDyingEasierDrugAbuseAgreeAddictionStartingIllnessRanEtcMisfortunesShort StoryLoved OnesChild AbusePersonal ExperiencesDrug AddictionHindsightDrug AddictStarting OutTerminalHuman SufferingTerminal IllnessLoved One Dying Author:Anthony Marra
“We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.” KnowsFeelsWellsMayChildrenStoriesLightEnergyFictionProduceEmotionalDrugAbuseResponseAddictionIllnessChild AbuseDrug AddictionDrug AddictTerminalEmotional ResponseTerminal Illness Author:Anthony Marra
“I think the addiction stuff, because I was already sort of outed in my family as a sexual person: as a sexually-adventurous and sexually-conflicted person and sexually-driven person. They already knew that about me. They knew that about me when I was eleven. My parents very consciously tried to provide an environment that would protect me from becoming a drug addict.” ThinkingPersonsStuffParentEnvironmentBecomingDrugProtectMy FamilyAddictionDrivenAddictElevenAdventurousSexuallyDrug Addict Author:Melissa Febos
“My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.” ThinkingWayMadeHelpingWould BeMotherFatherDecisionHalfBirthDrugRaisedPainfulViolentAddictAdoptedAlcoholismAlcoholicsDrug AddictSave Me Author:Melissa Febos
“When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.” BigsUsedHouseSonDrugCrossesDressesAddictDressingsTabooDrug AddictDressers Author:Riccardo Tisci
“Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's [Amenabar] hands.” KindHandsWantedSituationStudyPeriodsDrugAddictionHolesObsessedComing OutRabbitsDrug AddictionDrug AddictBakersRegressionRabbit HolesChet Baker Author:Ethan Hawke
“The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.” SeemsGovernmentAblePoliticalEasyHeardStudentsDrugActivityAddictionUniversityGet AwayEngagingCampusDrug AddictionDrug AddictUniversity Students Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.” KnowsShouldSelfSidesInvolvedDrugAccountsBubblesAddictAlcoholicsLarryDrug AddictAbsorptionSelf AbsorptionKramer Author:Elton John
“My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.” PeopleSelfReasonMotherLove IsViewsDrugOppositesAbuseAddictionAlcoholListsIndifferenceRejectionDestructiveAddictAlcoholicsDrug AddictSelf DestructiveSelf Destruct Author:Bernie Siegel
“If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."” IfsWantMindMightJobsUsedTurnsGrowthCan DoObjectsInvolvedCostDrugCreatingAspectMachinesSafetyVery GoodIllObjectivesConsumersScareMilkCowsOrganismsAddictGood JobEcosystemsHormonesDrug AddictHealth And SafetyMonocultureBovineGrowth Hormones Author:Vandana Shiva
“The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.” WorldLittlesHandsLanguageFictionDarknessExampleDramaDrugDiseaseAddAddictionCurrentsObviousCynicalNeuroticBrutalityDrug AddictionWearinessDrug AddictDiscordDrearyDementiaDysfunction Author:Tom Robbins
“I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.” HumansConsciousnessSubjectsDrugAgreeAddictDeliberateDrug AddictRecoveringHuman ConsciousnessInhibitionsNarcotics Author:Russell Brand
“Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.” PeopleNeedsMadeHappensCareChoicesDrugNormalDown AndMental HealthHealth CareHomelessAddictLife ChoicesDrug AddictKnocked DownBad Life Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of cough drops and a spoon of cough medicine. I said to him, "Hey, can I have another spoon of that? It's just over the counter," and he'd go, "No, I didn't come here to start up new drug addictions for you." And I was like, "C'mon, give me that bottle!" He was very watchful over me.” GivingSaidRememberDrugSickGive MeMedicineAddictionHeyBagsBottlesSpoonsDrug AddictionDrug AddictMinneapolisCough Drops Author:Stevie Nicks
“I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!” BigsLostPlayerDrugWeightTownsAddictionLoadRumorRugbyDrug AddictionDrug AddictMotocross Author:John Newman
“The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong social and familial relationships. If we can do whatever we can do to create that and to reduce bullying and to reduce the kind of pain and shame so many kids feel for so many reasons, that stuff is going to reduce drug addiction.” IfsWantFeelsKindReasonKidsPainStrongSocialStuffCan DoCommunityDrugShameAddictionConnectedBullyingDrug AddictionDrug Addict Author:Maia Szalavitz
“You don't have to be a drug addict to care for your mind.” MindCareDrugAddictDrug AddictCare For You Author:Demi Lovato
“The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.” PeopleKnowsPartyIssuesStudentsRepublicanCostDrugTradeAddictionIllnessDebtMental IllnessImmigrantsHealthcareRepublican PartyPrescriptionsDrug AddictionDrug AddictPrescription Drugs Author:John Kasich
“It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they are from and what they are trying to do with their lives. It is not a stereotype that has been pasted onto somebody. These are stories that come from Barry's [ Jenkins] and Tarell's [Alvin McCraney] mothers.” TryingHas BeensCharacterStoriesMotherThreeDealsDrugAddictionParenthoodStereotypeMoonlightDrug AddictionDrug AddictSingle Parent Author:Andre Holland
“[Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind of reporter that had a drug addiction. We start the story in rehab, and then he gets the roots of the story. I loved him.” KindStoriesFilmDrugRootsOriginalsAddictionReportersStrainDrug AddictionDrug AddictRehabAndromeda Author:Eric McCormack
“I'll get rid of the drug problem. The first drug dealer will be publicly executed in front of everybody and all of the sudden the rest of the drug dealers are going to go "Uh oh!" Watch how fast the drug problem disappears. If you use drugs, you're addicted and you steal something, you'll get sent off to the outback and to work camps and all of the sudden no drug addicts. See how simple that is? So simple.” IfsFirstsUseProblemSimpleWatchesFrontsDrugDisappearStealingCampsAddictDealerDrug AddictDrug Dealers Author:Gene Simmons