“The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.” WarCountryEnoughHandsLiteratureMediaDrugCriticalUndertakingsWar On DrugsAmerican Media Author:David Talbot
“Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the cave men lived are full of carvings of assorted game the head of the house drug home. If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too.” IfsMenHomeHandsRememberFoundGamesHouseSportsFineProudDrugShotsDetailsHuntingHuntersCavesHuntsCarvingAssorted Book:The Old Man and The Boy Source: The Old Man and The Boy
“So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.” PeopleWantImportantEndsStoriesHandsPowerfulBehindsLaughingComedyBecomingDrugSkillsAddictionHorribleMaking People LaughDrug AddictionDrug AddictMolestationBeginning Writers Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“There are so many things that can take over your life: money, alcohol, drugs - even fashion. People hand you things, and you start to believe life is easy. And it's not like that - you're not supposed to be the person you play in the movies.” PeopleBelievePersonsPlayHandsLife IsEasyFashionDrugAlcoholSupposed To BeOver YouLife Is Easy Author:Miley Cyrus
“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsBlackCompanyEconomyConditionsDrugAreasLaborThirdsPrisonComplexesAlternativesCorporationsBlack PeopleBetter LifeProfitableThird WorldMigrationIndustrialization Author:Angela Davis
“To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect and harm we do as detached, mean, irresponsible adults and communities. The answer is in our hands.” MeanDoneHandsCommunityAnswersDrugAdultsHarmNeglectMeaninglessFillingGangVacuumsIrresponsibleDetachedFilling In Author:Luis J. Rodriguez
“While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.” ChildrenUseHandsDangerousDrugPrecursor Author:Bobby Scott
“Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.” HumansHandsHuman BeingsDrugLaysAlcohol Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Now I understand why people do drugs, why people drink, and why people go crazy. As the success level goes up and up and up, the further detached I get from everybody else. Luckily, with my girlfriend, everything is gravy because I brought her into it. I brought her in and she's very hands on with my career.” PeopleHandsLevelsCareersCrazyDrinkDrugGirlfriendMy GirlfriendDetachedGravy Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I got jumped into a gang, but I never shot anybody or anything. I might have been in the car when something happened, but I was involved in the gangs just for the drugs. After a while, I just became an outcast of the gang because I just liked the drugs. I just wanted to do more drugs, anything you put in my hand.” Has BeensHandsMightWantedHappenedCarInvolvedDrugShotsMight Have BeenGangOutcast Author:Felipe Esparza
“Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.” IfsLittlesDifferentHandsMightSexRocksDrugMusicianRock And RollHand In HandViolinist Author:Slash
“People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.” PeopleWantTryingMayStillsMatterHandsHealthyDrugConsequenceNo Matter WhatIllegalBuzz Author:Benjamin Franklin
“I try to get seven to eight hours of sleep. Wash my hands a lot, take a few supplements, like omega-3 and vitamin D. When I feel a cold coming on, I pop some zinc. I do my best to eat a low-sodium, high-fiber diet. I drink mostly water or coconut water. I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.” FeelsTryingHandsWaterHoursSleepColdDrinkDrugLowsRedWineSevenPopsEightSmokeDietsVitaminsSupplementsFiberCoconutsRed WineSodiumVitamin DZinc Author:Andrea Navedo
“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
“I have no idea. I get involved because I think there's value in the project and because I love the character that is presented to me. I love the opportunity to examine a character, and to have him examine me, live inside me and move my hands. I love that. It's irresistible. It's a drug.” ThinkingIdeasCharacterHandsMovingValuesOpportunityInvolvedDrugProjectsNo IdeaGet InvolvedIrresistible Author:Donald Sutherland
“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've come to learn as an adult that love is a hell of a drug. It's one of the most dangerous things that human beings can have. It's also one of the most beautiful things that human beings can possess because love, on one hand, gives you the ability to care for a human being sometimes more than you would care for yourself. Love, unfortunately, sometimes gives you the ability to forgive somebody and blind yourself to the truth.” GivingHumansSometimesHandsCareBeautifulHuman BeingsAbilityLove IsHellDangerousSelf LoveDrugAdultsBlindForgivingBeautiful ThingsDangerous ThingsCare For You Author:Trevor Noah
“The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling drama in their lives that they used to get from the office and the factory, and they're no longer there. What happens if you have everything in the hands of the state, particularly in the line of an authoritarian state, they just give people drugs to keep them doped up, to keep them passive.” PeopleIfsGivingStatesHandsHappensUsedLinesDealsDramaDrugOfficeIncomeFactoriesCompellingPassive Author:Irvine Welsh
“We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.” SometimesHandsAbleLiteratureMemoriesChanceDangerousDrugPoisonChemicalsLaboratoryOur MemoriesSteersSoothing Author:Marcel Proust
“There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.” WayYearsHandsCoupleDrug Author:Layne Staley
“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.” GivingSelfWholeShowsHandsEyeSecretHairDrugMouthsDetailsTeethStomachAccentsDocumentsPortraitsDiariesWrinklesStrandsFingernailsSelf PortraitForensicsSelf Portrait PhotographyCalluses Book:Diary: A Novel Source: Diary: A Novel