“I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.” PeopleKnowsMenLeftRolesDrugPicksAddictDrug Addict Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.” KnowsLeftTermToo MuchMeditationGoes OnDrinkSceneDrugTemplesDo You KnowKnow MeDoing You Author:John Lennon
“I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.” PeopleNeedsHumansPersonsStillsHomeAbleLeftStuffDarkCasesConditionsDrugScaryAlcoholShyPoeticWhere You AreHuman ConditionBack HomeScary Stuff Author:Anne Lamott
“Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic. That's why liberals promote policies to break up families. Every social malady is a victory for the left. A couple gets divorced and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A child is born out of wedlock and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A person gets addicted to drugs and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!"” ChildrenPersonsLeftSocialBornBreakPolicyCoupleVictoryRepublicanDrugMarriedVoteDemocraticVotersDivorcedMaladySingle WomenMarried WomenWedlockYay Author:Ann Coulter
“From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.” ChildrenGovernmentLeftPresidentBehindsPlansSecurityCreationDrugMajorsDepartmentPassagesExpansionLeft BehindPresident BushHomelandPrescriptionsMedicarePrescription DrugsHomeland SecurityNo Child Left BehindDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:Chuck Todd
“I was reading an interview with Keith Richards in a magazine and in the interview Keith Richards intimated that kids should not do drugs. Keith Richards! Says that kids should not do drugs! Keith, we can't do any more drugs because you already f-king did them all, alright? There's none left! We have to wait 'til you die and smoke your ashes! Jesus Christ! Talk about the pot and the f-kin' kettle.” ShouldKidsDiesReadingJesusLeftWaitingChristKingsDrugJesus ChristMagazinesSmokeInterviewsPotAshesAlrightKeithKettles Author:Denis Leary
“I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not the most popular idea ever expressed. Either that or you're all real high and agreeing with me in the only way you can right now. (Starts blinking)” WayBelieveIdeasRealHelpingCertainLeftI BelieveGrowingPlanetsEvolutionRight NowDrugSpeedOur PlanetFacilitate Author:Bill Hicks
“My mother would say, before I left the house, 'Remember Art, hugs are better than drugs.' And I believed my mother, I believed everything she said - until the first time I got high at a party. I leaned back, and I went, 'God, this is way better than when my Uncle Perry hugs me. What else has my mother been lying to me about?” WayFirstsArtSaidRememberLyingMotherHouseLeftPartyDrugFirst TimeHugUnclesLie To MeHug Me Author:Artie Lange
“I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of his hair and tried to put me in a home, a hospital kind of place for kids with drug problems, which I absolutely did not belong in. So I left that place and struck out on my own...” KindLongProblemHomeKidsWantedLeftMy OwnHairMonthsDrugHospitalsStepdads Author:Rose McGowan
“I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.” KnowsWorldDifferentEyeYoungFatherLeftEmotionSituationMinutesGrewDrugGrew UpFingersGuitarDifferent WorldsAbusiveBad Situations Author:DJ Ashba
“How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.” PeopleYoungLeftGroupsDrugEuropeIdealsEmptyAlcoholFundamentalist Author:Pope Francis
“[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” PeopleKnowsTwoWarHomeLyingNightCoursesHouseLeftBlackCommunityWhiteLeaderEnemyBreakDrugNewsMeetingsCampaignsEveningIllegalWhite HouseBlack PeopleAntiwarMarijuanaAssociatesHippieHeroinVilify Author:John Ehrlichman
“After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.” SongFoundJesusLeftReturnBecomingDrugProtestSongwritingBobDylanHurricanesBecoming Famous Author:Bob Dylan
“I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as the intention to serve and protect the lives of the innocent within the animal kingdom. I wanted to test myself, to see if I was able to overcome the dire situation that I was headed toward. By this of course I mention the fact that I was an alcoholic and drug addict before I left to live in the wild.” IfsFactsWould BeAbleWantedCoursesLeftAnimalSituationDrugProtectTestsOvercomingIntentionKingdomsInnocentAddictAlcoholicsDrug AddictAnimal Kingdom Author:Timothy Treadwell
“When I left my home within society to live amongst the Grizzly's I went there so that I could sacrifice myself to something which was even more chaotic than the drinking and drug abuse. When I made the wholehearted attempt such as it was to 'save' the Grizzly's I wanted to actually save myself. The animals only later on became my life as well as my directive principle, not because they desired a human to protect them, rather because I wanted to do for them what is humanly possible when faced with such possibilities.” HumansWellsMadeHomeWantedLeftAnimalPrinciplesSacrificePossibilityDrugProtectAbuseDrinkingChaoticDrug AbuseGrizzlies Author:Timothy Treadwell
“I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.” PeopleChildrenHouseLeftWhiteBehindsStreetsWallRepublicanDrugBillsDemocratStartingHillsWhite HouseLeft BehindPrescriptionsMedicareCapitolPrescription DrugsBailoutsCapitol HillNo Child Left Behind Author:Mike Pence
“A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.” LastsNightLeftWeekMinutesCollegeDrugBedSoldierRanMarchPlasticToysSkipTossLast MinuteDoughnutMilkshakesHeadless Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.” PeopleWorldRealLawOrderLeftRealizingAdventureDrugPropertyLaw And Order Book:Survivor: A Novel Source: Survivor: A Novel