Alexander Shulgin Quotes
I'm called the Godfather of Ecstacy because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug...”
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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I think penguins are cute.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
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No matter how you're feeling, a little dog gunna love you.
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From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
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It's important to get the facts straight, a lot of information out there isn't right.
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If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.
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The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.
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If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
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I'm called the Godfather of Ecstacy because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug...”
