“When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.” StillsBookProblemFatherBehindsSawsAchieveDrugStandingDiedNotesBarsCooksOystersUnsuccessfulClams Author:Anthony Bourdain
“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.” YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income Author:Sal Albanese
“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 remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.” PeopleLittlesRememberSawsDrugRainStandingCornersI RealizedBuyingApartmentTrafficRainyRainy DayStoops Author:Ai Weiwei
“One of my first jobs was in Italy and that's where I saw cocaine for the first time. There was a murder in our group that weekend. I decided then and there that I would never do drugs. I have anxiety attacks, so there's no way I could do them.” WayFirstsJobsSawsGroupsDrugAnxietyFirst TimeDecidedMurderWeekendCocaineAnxiety Attacks Author:Linda Evangelista
“The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.” PeopleWorldGovernmentSawsDrugDown AndLawns Book:Rants Source: Rants
“I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad`s room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the gun accidentally goes off and kills his friend. Only in America is the villain in this commercial not guns or bad parenting, but pot.” KidsAmericaRoomsSawsDadDrugGunAdvertisingSmokingPotVillainOnly In AmericaSmoking PotBad Parenting Author:Bill Maher
“When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.” KnowsReasonArtistSawsDrugMusicianDestructionAlcoholGreat MusicSeattleOregonGreat Musician Author:Meredith Brooks
“I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.” PeopleWellsFallSawsDrugAbuseDeeperAlcoholSubstanceAlcoholismSeductiveSubstance Abuse Author:Moby
“I saw a lot of drugs and strange things when I was younger, but I also think it was a positive experience because I was surrounded by these really interesting, beautiful people that were trying to get their lives back on track.” PeopleThinkingTryingBeautifulInterestingSawsStrangeDrugTrackReally InterestingStrange ThingsBeautiful PeopleBack On TrackPositive Experiences Author:Tamaryn
“When the surgeon general Joycelyn Elders said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired.” FeelsShouldSaidFeltSawsDrugEldersSurgeons Author:Snoop Dogg
“I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.” PeopleYearsLongImportantWarSawsDrugLong TimeJailDefendersWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I grew in a community where I saw the process of how one becomes a drug dealer or a gang banger or a stick-up kid. There's a series of events that happen. People don't just wake up and decide they wanna be that.” PeopleHappensKidsProcessCommunitySawsEventsGrewDrugWake UpSticksSeriesGangDealerDrug Dealers Author:Michael K. Williams
“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.” LoveRealityWould BeRomanceFallLove IsSawsImpossibleRelationshipDrugFalling In LoveIllnessMental IllnessRomantic LoveFunny Love Author:Fran Lebowitz
“[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked.” SeemsFacesNextRoomsSituationSawsTroubleDrugStandingDoctorsPatientTraumaKnivesOrderlyClerksLooking Down Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away.” NeedsPersonsSometimesPainStuffSpaceSawsDoorsDrugNegativeBlastOuter Space Author:Melvin Burgess