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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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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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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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
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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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To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.
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I do not ever want to be a huge star.
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Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
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I don't know if commerce can every truly be information. I think that's just commerce, that's just selling you something.
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If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.
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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...”
