Drugs Quotes

"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world"

Kelli White, Athlete

"But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with"

Ethan Suplee, Actor

"If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children"

Barry McCaffrey, Soldier

"But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal"

Ted Demme, Director

"Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"The war on drugs is a war against the communities"

Holly Near, Musician

"New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine"

Daniel Akaka, Politician

"Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it"

Randy Newman, Comedian

"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free"

Harry Browne, Writer

"I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about"

Natalie Cole, Musician

"Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs"

Michael Baden, Celebrity

"Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive"

Kyan Douglas, Celebrity

"There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that"

Patricia Velasquez, Actress

"Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors"

Barry McCaffrey, Soldier

"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"I took drugs because we all took drugs"

Marianne Faithfull, Musician

"I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit"

Marianne Faithfull, Musician

"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did"

Alex Chilton, Musician

"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I'm very fond of drugs"

Grace Slick, Musician

"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens"

Michael Giles, Musician

"Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases"

William Osler, Scientist

"The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this"

Ike Turner, Musician

"I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either"

Kristin Davis, Actress

"Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard"

Ted Nugent, Musician

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