“If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.” IfsDrugLuckyDestructionFlirtingAddictAlcoholicsDrug Addict Author:Anthony Hopkins
“A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless did not become pregnant at thirteen . . . and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike. . . . It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies.” ChildrenStoriesYoungDrugLuckyStrongerStrikesSmokeCombinationAtmosphereDeclinePregnantNeverthelessSeventiesOccasionalExperimentationThirteenCamelsSupervisionPrecocious Author:Marie Winn
“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
“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
“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
“After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.” WorldTwoFactsHomeTodaySchoolFacesWaterCrimeBrokenDrugLuckyNewsTrainStrikesEveningComing HomeNaziAddictAbsorbingDrug AddictMuggersLucky DayPower Failure Author:Barbara Tuchman
“I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.” SexAmountDrugLuckyFoundationAlcoholAidsBulletsSo LuckyUnsafe Author:Elton John
“Some of the folks we see are in for defending themselves against their abusers, or drug charges that, because of the California state prison system, they have mandatory sentencing and life in prison for three counts of simple drug possession, or whatever. I find it not only helpful but, I think, necessary in maintaining my grounding and my perspective. Because music is such an unrealistic job to have. It's a really lucky job to have, but it's also very unrealistic.” ThinkingStatesJobsThreeSimplePerspectiveDrugLuckyMusic IsPrisonFolksPossessionCaliforniaHelpfulMaintainingAbusersGroundingPrison System Author:Thao Nguyen