“If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.” PeopleIfsWorldLooksTodayPoorPayCompanyProduceDrugReasonableDeniedPoor PeopleRoyaltyPatents Author:Yusuf Hamied
“It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever.” PeopleWayEnergyCreativeAmountDrugDirectorsDrinkingEnormousRejectedFrustratingCreative Energy Author:Matt Damon
“Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanKidsDrugAddictionRedemptionGet OverVersusMaking ChangesHookedRehab Author:Ice T
“The fair (ph) transforms the process by which we fund Social Security and Medicare because the money paid in consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, all the people that are freeloading off the system now.” PeopleSocialProcessSecurityDrugFairsPaidIncludingFundConsumptionSocial SecurityMedicareDealerPimpDrug Dealers Author:Mike Huckabee
“I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.” PeopleWritingDrugGhostOnlineBad BoyTestimonialBad Boyfriend Author:Michael Dumontier
“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
“When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.” PeopleIfsEnjoyLinesAliveWifeHappenedFineDrinkDrugLuckyMurderWake UpMy WifeAlcoholHandleDrunkSmokeJailDrugs And AlcoholRouletteRussian RouletteLucky To Be Alive Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to get the high they need. They either stay with pot or quit.” PeopleNeedsDoeMovingLinesDrugHarderStrongerQuittingBoredPotMarijuana Author:Steven Machat
“People who are lazy may smoke pot and remain lazy. That is aging the person finding a drug to help one create the vegetable style the person wants, as the person cannot live in the real world.” PeopleWorldWantMayPersonsRealHelpingStyleDrugFindingsAgingSmokeLazyPotReal WorldVegetables Author:Steven Machat
“I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.” PeopleDesireDrugTempted Author:Robin Williams
“I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can't find a job.” PeopleThinkingBigsGovernmentKidsJobsCollegeDrugFrustrationNeighborhoodSurroundFrustratedLoanDysfunction Author:John Kasich
“There's so many ways to become a spiritual person and that's why a lot of people do drugs is that they're looking for something more and they're not satisfied. Even if they don't know their spirituality, they're searching for something more and they find it or they think they do with drugs, and that's what I thought for a long time.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayPersonsLongSpiritualSpiritualityDrugLong TimeSatisfied Author:Christofer Drew
“My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering people. What I've noticed in my overuse of cocaine is the period of pleasure versus the period of pain. That is to say that when you first get high on anything, the pleasure is predominant and you don't pay much price. A little hangover or whatever it might be with another drug. But after a while the ratio begins to change, and there' s far more pain in the deal than pleasure. It just completely goes in another direction.” PeopleFirstsKindLittlesMightPainMovingPleasureDealsPayPeriodsDrugVersusCocaineRatiosGetting HighHangoverRecoveringMoving Away Author:George Carlin
“All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.” PeopleWorldWantFeelsLittlesLongDifferentSometimesReasonAsksPoorDrugEmptyThirdsPlantPeasantsWrong ThingsThird WorldWrong Reasons Author:George Carlin
“I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will in your own body knowing that it's harmful against the body, it's against the law and all it will do is lead you down the path of destruction, that is a weakness.” PeopleBodyLawKnowingPathDrugWeaknessDestructionSickTiredSicknessFree Will Author:Tommy Lasorda
“Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.” PeopleIfsKindLittlesEarthSocialStuffBitsSecurityPlanetsPoliticianPromiseDrugLittle BitRidiculousOver YouChickensPotAfterlifeOld PeopleSocial SecurityEntitlementPrescriptionsPrescription DrugsRidiculous Things Author:Bill Maher
“My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.” PeopleBodyHappensActingBreakDrugCoachesBreaking Down Author:Eva Mendes
“Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.” PeopleHas BeensTruth IsDrugUnfairArrestedScots Author:Oliver Stone
“People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.” PeopleKindDifferentReasonCertainQualityAudienceDrugMassTheaterDifferent Kinds Author:Mike White
“I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.” PeopleCrazyProductsAmountDrugSellsProfitSpendingEnormousReputationDeliveringBeing Crazy Author:Wes Craven
“As part of my job, I got malaria really badly and was put in intensive care, and I had a hallucination because they give you this cocktail of drugs to fix you so you don't die, and I had this hallucination that I was at the Oscars and I won and I was a really good actress, and it was so real that when I came out of the hospital, I started saying to people I'm going to become an actress.” PeopleGivingRealCareJobsDiesDrugActressesHospitalsOscarsCocktailsHallucinationsMalaria Author:Rebel Wilson
“From the outside, people think it's drug-related. But wherever you come from, people are driven by a sense of belonging. What I say to kids all the time is you don't own streets. We don't own the paving stones we are fighting over. Instead of fighting each other, you should be fighting the government to make this a better place to live.” PeopleThinkingShouldGovernmentKidsFightingStreetsDrugStonesDrivenRelatedBelongingBetter PlacePlaces To LivePavingFighting Each Other Author:Ashley Walters
“We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people whose lives are ruined. If drugs were legal there would be a lot less people using them.” PeopleIfsNeedsWould BeDrugJailMinorsRuinedViolation Author:Sonny Barger
“You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but we all know 400,000 people a year die of cigarette-related deaths. How many people died of drugs, guns, automobile accidents? You add them all together it doesn't come anywhere near that. Yet they let me smoke and get cancer, and they put me in jail for having drugs. What's going on? The government don't care. It's all about money and job security.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsCountryGovernmentCareTogetherJobsDiesSecurityCrimeDrugGunLet MeDiedAddCancerDon't CareAccidentsWhat You WantSmokeUsaRelatedJailCigaretteAutomobile Author:Sonny Barger
“I don't feel drugs should be illegal. I don't think people should take drugs every day, but I don't see any difference with people taking drugs like they drink. Take drugs on Saturday night and go to a party and have a good time and have somebody drive you home or whatever it is so you don't hurt anybody else, that's fine. But if you wake up Monday morning and take 'em again you're a drug addict. But, they should be legal.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsShouldHomeNightDifferencesHurtPartyMorningFineDrinkDrugWake UpGood TimesEmsIllegalSaturdayMondayAddictHaving A Good TimeSaturday NightDrug AddictMonday Morning Author:Sonny Barger
“A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story."” PeopleMenLongEndsStoriesHumorFunnyAttentionHappenedDrugMadExtrasDisorderDeficitAttention SpanAttention Deficit Disorder Author:Mitch Hedberg
“People associate long hair with drug use. I wish people associated long hair with something other than drug use, like an extreme longing for cake. And then strangers would see a long haired guy and say, "That guy eats cake!" "He is on bundt cake!" Mothers saying to their daughters, "Don't bring the cake eater over here anymore. He smells like flour. Did you see how excited he got when he found out your birthday was fast approaching?"” PeopleLongUseHumorFunnyMotherGuyFoundWishHairDrugDaughterLongingExcitedExtremesStrangerSmellCakeAssociatesThat GuyLong HairFlourDrug Use Author:Mitch Hedberg
“There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top. .... There is absolutely no way that government can operate successfully unless led by godly men and women operating under the laws of the God of Jacob” PeopleMenWorldWayGovernmentAgeLawHouseGivenReligiousDrugMen And WomenAtheistScaryRevolutionarySatanCommunistDictatorSecularHomosexualGreedyGodlyNew AgeDealerAssassinsJacobDrunkardsDrug DealersTop Of The WorldGodly Man Author:Pat Robertson
“The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.” PeopleWayCountryDealsEffortDrugWaste Author:Dave Barry
“I guess nobody assumes anybody is a libertarian. It's a more complex political discussion than most people are used to, to explain why you think the way you do about public education or drug laws, and why it's not as simple as being for or against something.” PeopleThinkingWayLawPoliticalUsedSimpleDrugAssumingComplexesLibertarianDiscussionPublic EducationDrug Laws Author:Dave Barry
“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
“Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.” PeopleShouldWellsSaidI CanHelpingSchoolPoorToo MuchTeacherCrazyTerribleDrugMusicianHigh SchoolCompetitionEtcJailAddictEpiphanyChorusDrug Addict Author:Billy Joel
“I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.” PeopleEndsSawsDrugNeedlesEnd Of The Road Book:Al Pacino Source: Al Pacino
“I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.” PeopleEnoughSongDrugLuckyMovedRoughRough TimesMoved On Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.” PeopleThinkingHumansSometimesSexWealthDrugLongingStriveSatisfactionPsych Author:Desmond Tutu
“We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsDifferentForceChallengesTeacherOur LivesDrugAlcoholDependentGuru Author:Richard Bach
“In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.” PeopleThinkingUseEnergyStuffForgetDrugPressureHeavyReactionsPerformingReverseCocaineNumbNothing New Author:Robin Williams
“Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.” PeopleWayNeedsPainPathStrangeHabitExerciseDrugAlcoholDrugs And Alcohol Author:Mariel Hemingway
“People who think there's no good way to die have obviously never heard the phrase 'Drug-fuelled-sex-heart-attack'.” PeopleThinkingWayHeartHumorFunnyDiesSexHeardDrugPhrasesGood WayHeart Attack Author:Frankie Boyle
“The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.” PeopleLooksValuesSexResultsNew YorkDrugAreasSafetyCleanDullShopsSquaresUrbanHomelessSuburbsCleanlinessDullnessHomeless PeopleTimes SquareOrderlinessUrban Areas Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I'm really showing the people what's happening. I'm showing them love. You're spending on guns and drugs and bombs and stuff like those and you're still not reaching out to the people who are suffering. You found money to make bombs and destructive weapons, but you ain't finding no money to help people suffering.” PeopleStillsHelpingSufferingFoundStuffLove YouDrugFindingsWeaponsHappeningsGunSpendingBombsReachingDestructiveReach OutNo Money Author:Sizzla
“Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.” PeopleKindYoungBlackEconomyProduceMaterialsDrugGainsAlternativesBlack People Author:Angela Davis
“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
“If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.” PeopleIfsMenHumansMeanHas BeensArtYoungImaginationCreativityDrugDrawsLeavingMeaningfulGangMen WomenMeaningful LifeImagination And CreativityTrue EducationHope Love Author:Luis J. Rodriguez
“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
“People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.” PeopleChildrenInterestInfluenceDrugLosingAccountsRelationNeglectDestroyingBehaviourTypicalCultAddictBank AccountsDrainingLosing Interest Author:Keith Henson
“I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.” PeopleWantBookUseReadingDrugExpensiveHotelReading BooksLots Of Money Author:Tao Lin
“People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsWould BeGivenMediaBabyDrugNewsHungerMentalityFeedingPining Author:Patti Smith
“People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.” PeopleMeanStillsDrugKillingHanging OutHung Author:John Wozniak
“The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensWarHelpingLibertySacrificeCrimeTerribleDrugDiseaseShadowTreatsTradePrisonSpendingMedicalBillionsViolentSmokingOur SocietyWeedMarijuanaFillingWar On DrugsNeed HelpOffendersNon ViolentMedical MarijuanaSmoking WeedViolent CrimesFilling Up Author:Sting