“I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.” FeelsTryingLooksEyePainCan DoDrugAlcoholRidiculousInevitableSomedayNumbPoisoningPostponing Author:Johnny Depp
“What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.” MomentsFacesLife IsCan DoCarHealthyDrugSmokeLife And DeathNutsNeat Book:It's Always Something Source: It's Always Something
“I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but it is what it is and I can't change the past. And I can apologize to my family and my friends and my colleagues and the people.” PeopleMadeI CanPastCan DoMistakeDrugMy FriendsMy FamilyApologizingColleaguesAddictCan't ChangeMade A MistakeIt Is What It IsI Made A MistakeCan't Change The Past Author:Rob Ford
“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
“Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsPersonsMomentsCan DoBrainCasesCryMonthsDrugSkillsDemandResourcesMiracleShameAssumingOperationsAcquireExpensiveWealthySurgerySurgeonsScarceWithin ReachSupply And DemandBrain SurgeryScarce Resources Author:Leonard Read
“To quote Homer Simpson, alcohol is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. I don't think there's anything wrong with drinking and drug use, if people can do it and not hurt themselves. But it got to the point where I was really hurting myself.” PeopleIfsThinkingUseProblemCausesCan DoHurtDrugSolutionsDrinkingAlcoholDrug UseHurting Myself Author:Moby
“Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.” IfsKindRealUseOrderFallEnergyGoalCan DoSituationFocusGraceCrazyLandBuildingDrugLuckIncrediblesDesertGet BetterPullingAddictTruckPillowDopeGet MoneySomething RealResourcefulness Author:Bucky Sinister
“Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.” WorldGovernmentAsksCan DoPayTomorrowDrugHighestMedicinePrescriptionsPrescription Drugs Author:Bernie Sanders
“When people ask me what my dream role would be, I tell them that it's to play someone very dark. Very dark - like someone involved in the drug world or some other criminal venture. Maybe someone who's delusional or not all there or just not well. I really hope I can do that one day.” PeopleWorldWellsI CanPlayDreamWould BeAsksCan DoDarkRolesInvolvedOne DayDrugCriminalsAsk MeVentureDelusional Author:Jennifer Coolidge
“Stars now also have problems with drugs, and it can be even harder being so out in the public eye - it's hard for them to keep their sanity and normal self present, but they can do it.” SelfHardProblemEyeStarsCan DoDrugNormalHarderSanityPublic Eye Author:Maureen McCormick
“I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years.” YearsBelieveCertainI BelieveCan DoAmountBirthDrugCapacityAlcoholYou Can Do ItDrugs And Alcohol Author:Fran Lebowitz
“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 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