“I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.” KnowsMenGivingScienceLyingKnowledgeKnow HowDrugDoctorsShopsReliefHelpfulPhysiciansConsolationConsole Author:Anatole France
“I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.” KnowsKnow HowStageGoes OnDrugHorribleRight ThingGet OverFrightStage Fright Author:Roseanne Barr
“Drug users made me. They taught me. I didn't know how to work a scale; I didn't know what a gram was. Drug users taught me the business. They're going to teach it to the next guy, because they want a good drug dealer, one they can trust, one that's not going to rob them, one that's not going to cheat them out of their money, one that's not going to sell them fake dope. That was me. They're going to find another one because they're going to be looking for that guy every single day until they find him.” KnowsWantMadeGuyNextTeachKnow HowTaughtDrugSellsScalesFakeUsersCheatThat GuyDealerDopeDrug Dealers Author:Rick Ross
“You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.” KnowsLooksMadeGuyKnow HowFootballFoolDrugDrawsIllusionDefense Author:Rick Ross
“I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsShouldCountryShowsKnow HowPlansTaughtDrugSmokeUsaActivistPotEducatorPotheads Author:Tommy Chong
“I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."” PeopleKnowsYearsBookShowsProblemKidsReadingStarsKnow HowGraceRocksDrugFindingsBackgroundsRecoveryShow MeCeoPillsDiariesRock StarShatteredHeroinCoke Author:Nikki Sixx
“I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWritingTryingDoneWholeArtistSidesKnow HowInformationDrugInsightVeilsAlways Trying Author:Creed Bratton
“I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.” PeopleKnowsMadeNightKnow HowTroubleDrugFemalePotAddictAlcoholicsDrankDead ManDrug AddictRetrospective Author:John Waters
“As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.” KnowsAbleKnow HowDrugLuckyHollywoodAbuseDrug Abuse Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston
“I don't need any drug to show me Heaven And I sure know how to spend plenty of time cleaning Hell But I'm missin' that feeling of falling.” KnowsNeedsShowsFeelingsFallHeavenKnow HowHellDrugPlentyShow MeCleaning Author:Bonnie Raitt
“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.” KnowsWayNeedsFeelsWellsEnoughSocialKnow HowChildhoodEmotionalWallDrugSkillsAdultsOur ChildrenAlcoholHolesOver ItEthicalFeel BetterPostersDrugs And Alcohol Author:Bucky Sinister
“People who use LSD today know how to use it. Therefore, I hope that the health authorities will get the insight that LSD, if it is used properly, is not a dangerous drug. We actually should not refer to it as drug; this word has a very bad connotation. We should use another name.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldUseTodayUsedNamesKnow HowDangerousDrugAuthorityInsightLsdConnotationDangerous Drugs Author:Albert Hofmann
“There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.” IfsKnowsTryingBigsKnow HowPersonalityInvolvedDrugAlcoholSongwritersSinger SongwritersDrugs And AlcoholUnsure Author:Barry Mann