David Mixner Quotes

Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

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• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
  • Drug
  • Because

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Drug
  • Down

• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • Father
  • Death
  • Night

• A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Drug

• The best time to go to Las Vegas is during Christmastime, because there's no drug you can take that will recreate the experience of watching people gamble while they play Christmas carols. I'm Jewish, and I'm astonished. People going, 'GODDAMMIT!' 'JESUS CHRIST!' 'HOLY FUCK!' '...pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, me and my drum.'

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Business
  • Experience

• My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • World
  • Trying
  • Free

• Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

  

  Jake Halpern
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Dark

• Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the critics like you, and you make the studios money, doors opened.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• The substance of painting is light.

  

  Andre Derain
  • Light
  • Painting

• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  

  Daryl Gates
  • Taken
  • Drug

• We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Different
  • Money
  • Pretty

• When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • People
  • Drug

• Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Drug
  • Expectations

• The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Stop

• I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Live
  • Travel

• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

  

  Walter Murch
  • View
  • Point Of View
  • Puzzle

• She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Home
  • She
  • Lies

• Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

  

  David Mixner
  • Drug