Alan I. Leshner Quotes
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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.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
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The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.
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Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.
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I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately this form of expression and decided to limit the production of 'ready-mades' to a small number yearly. I was aware at that time, that for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'ready-mades' against such contamination.
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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.
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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.
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I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
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Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.
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At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.
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We should revel in tons and tons and tons of ideas. Some of them will manifest and lead to a drug discovery, and some will not.
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Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
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There is no such thing as recreational drug use.
