Drugs Quotes

"In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle"

Lou Reed, Musician

"I tried to give up drugs by drinking"

Lou Reed, Musician

"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"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"Drugs scared me"

Larry David, Actor

"If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"Don’t booze too much, don’t take drugs, don’t rape women — only for love or for money as they say"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Businessman

"Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs"

Kanye West, Musician

"If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"I bought a gun and chose drugs instead"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more"

Layne Staley, Musician

"Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not"

Layne Staley, Musician

"These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools"

Bob Filner, Politician

"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"I don't need drugs to make my life tragic"

Eddie Vedder, Musician

"There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use"

Layne Staley, Musician

"Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering"

Layne Staley, Musician

"Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that"

Layne Staley, Musician

"There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on"

Layne Staley, Musician

"Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs"

Jack Bowman, Actor

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