“Every time I meet somebody who's been affected by something I worked on, I feel like, yes, that's what I want to do, whether the Children's Health Insurance Program or making drugs safer for kids or helping more kids get a doctor, whatever it might be.” WantFeelsChildrenHelpingMightKidsDrugProgramDoctorsAffected Author:Hillary Clinton
“In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They don't do what you want them to do - they get into trouble, do drugs, fight over petty things, and do outrageous things that you wouldn't want your children to do. In other words, you can only provide the background, the seeds - in my case the background of the Vietnamese refugee.” IfsWorldWantChildrenCharacterDreamFightingFictionCasesTroubleDrugOur ChildrenSeedsWhat You WantBackgroundsYour ChildrenFree WillRefugeePettyOutrageousVietnameseDream WorldVietnamese Refugees Author:Andrew Lam
“The thing about drugs is this ... the Libertarians kind of have the right idea on this: Basically, their theory is that you own your own body, and the government should get out of your face. But, you also do not have the right to harm other people or to impinge on their rights or space. So, let's apply that to drugs . If you want to get wrecked, and you could afford it, and you have a place to do it where the results of your behavior can't harm another person, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be allowed to do it.” PeopleIfsWantShouldKindPersonsIdeasReasonBodyGovernmentFacesSpaceResultsRightsTheoryDrugBehaviorHarmLibertarianReason WhyYour FaceRight Ideas Author:Frank Zappa
“If you are home, and you got no place to go, and you want to, just blow yourself up ... Go ahead ... The drugs themselves ... There's a price for doing stuff to yourself.” IfsWantHomeStuffDrugBlowPlaces To Go Author:Frank Zappa
“The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.” MenWantIdeasWarEndsProgressHe ManHairDrugSessionRipCurlsWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life and death. So my approach is really simple: I just don't want them to die. And I want them to be able to save someone's life if they see someone die.” IfsWantBelieveMeanKidsAbleDiesI BelieveDifferencesSimpleTalkingCasesDrugApproachLife And DeathBetween Life And Death Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption [for doping test] - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else.” IfsWantWould BeDrugTestsPerformancesReputationExceptionOutspokenExemptionDopingPerformance Enhancing Drugs Author:Georges St-Pierre
“If you accuse me of being on drugs because I'm very focused on what I do, because I'm very serious, because I'm very hungry, because I can squat 800 lbs, because I can bench 500 lbs, because I can press 315 behind my neck, and if these things don't fit under what you consider to be natural, then I don't want to be a natural. I don't want to be what you depict as a natural. I want to define myself for me.” IfsWantI CanNaturalBehindsSeriousFitDrugPressesFocusedHungryNecksBecause I CanBenchesSquat Author:Kai Greene
“How I was raised was, there were no rules - nothing like that. If I wanted to take a drug because I was in school and everybody was doing it, I could go to my parents and say, "I really want to try this." And they'd say, "If you do this, O.K., but this is what can happen to you..." They'd say, "Don't get it in the streets, because it could be really bad and make you freak out. Don't take it in a crowded place, because you'll panic."” IfsWantTryingHappensWantedSchoolParentStreetsDrugRaisedFreakPanicCrowdedCrowded Places Author:Winona Ryder
“You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.” IfsWantPartyDrugPotLsd Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Prison was a blessing. Going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. It showed me that I wasn't infallible. It showed me that I was just human. It showed me that I can be back with my ghetto brothers I grew up with and have a good time. It taught me to cool out. It taught me patience. It taught me that I didn't ever want to lose my freedom. It taught me that drugs bring on the devil. It taught me to grow up.” WantHumansI CanGrowsLosesGrowing UpHappenedTaughtBrotherGrewBlessingDrugGrew UpDevilPrisonGood TimesHaving A Good TimeGhettoInfallible Author:Rick James
“I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.” ThinkingWantTwoActionPainSufferingThreeSocialGrowsGrowthStrugglePathDrugEmpathyThirdsResponseAvailableRevengeRageEndlessAgentsPrimariesEmptinessNumbIntoxicationOverworkSocial ActionSpaciousnessBacksliding Author:C.E. Morgan
“I'm a Christian. I'm committed to Jesus Christ and I want people to know about Christ, because it's the most wonderful thing. People can say, 'I'll try and give up drugs,' or 'I'll try and live a better life,' but actually, if you're trapped in that lifestyle, you need, I think, some supernatural power to get you out of it. It's not easy to get out of the kind of lifestyles those people are in where all your family are criminals and all your friends are criminals - that is not an easy break to make, and it is a hard thing for a lot of these people.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsGivingTryingKindHardChristianJesusEasyChristBreakWonderfulDrugGiving UpJesus ChristCommittedCriminalsLifestyleOur FamilyTrappedWonderful ThingsBetter LifeHard ThingsEasy To GetSupernatural Powers Author:Nicky Gumbel
“I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.” KnowsWantAudienceDrugDatingClubsKnow Me Author:Shia LaBeouf
“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.” WantNeedsIndividualTeachDrugOur SocietyToysNever EndingWants And NeedsDaily ExperienceNew Toys Author:Christopher Lasch
“If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.” IfsWantProblemBigsMotherAsksAnswersDrugTenSmartDaughterFatsPounds Author:Courtney Love
“If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.” IfsWantChildrenWarFightingDrugTablesKitchenWar On DrugsKitchen Table Author:Barry McCaffrey
“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingFactsGovernmentGrowsFlowerDrugEducatedPotWeedMarijuanaHerbsCannabisHempMedical MarijuanaSmoke WeedFunny MarijuanaFunny WeedFunny DrugGanjaGreat WeedCool MarijuanaLegalizing MarijuanaPotheads Author:Willie Nelson
“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.” WantNeedsFeelsDifferentTearsDrugThroatKickingWithdrawing Author:Keith Ablow
“It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.” WantSeemsConsciousnessDrugIncrease Author:Jerzy Kosinski
“How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.” KnowsWantStillsCharacterSpiritualChangedDrugDimensionsUsersPsychedelicDon't ChangeLsdCrooksPsychedelic DrugsSpiritual Dimensions Author:Alexander Shulgin
“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsGivingRealStatesFeelingsProblemDreamSpaceLove IsFantasySecurityEmotionalDrugCommitmentFunctionSolveStuckGenuineBlissInsightfulSteadyGood FeelingUnderminingReal PowerGenuine Love Author:Bell Hooks
“I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.” WantMeanI CanFactsMightFacesWatchesDogHairOne DayDrugAcknowledgeFeedingSimplestSophieBrushingPonytailsShoelaces Book:Vanishing Acts Source: Vanishing Acts
“When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.” WantDrugAddictionAlcoholRecoveryAddictDrug AddictionDrugs And AlcoholDrug AddictRecoveringAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionDrug Addiction RecoveryAddicts In RecoveryInspirational Addiction RecoveryOvercoming AddictionAlcohol RecoveryDrug RecoveryInspirational Drug Recovery Author:Luke Davies
“Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.” IfsWorldWantBookDreamHouseInterestPositionDrugAreasDistanceCastsDefenseBridgesDimensionsOutside World Author:Italo Calvino