William S. Burroughs Quotes

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

William S. Burroughs

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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

• He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Me
  • Wonder

• 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

• Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Drug

• Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Drug
  • Marijuana

• 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

• The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Safety
  • Drug
  • Reflection

• 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

• 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.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Black
  • Financial
  • Drug

• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  

  Daryl Gates
  • Taken
  • Drug

• 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

• It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
  • Children
  • Drug

• I like to do all things. I've been fortunate enough to be able to do a bunch of them at the same time.

  

  Maurissa Tancharoen
  • Time

• Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Opinion

• Everyone was like, "Why do you need to meet someone on Match.com?" My response was, "I certainly don't need to meet more of the same broke, acting class guys that I'd been dating my whole life." I needed to change that whole paradigm. So, I decided to meet some corporate guys and see how that worked. So, I went on Match, but I didn't put a picture up, because I'm on television, and I didn't want anybody contacting me for the wrong reasons. So, I had to do the hunting, as it were. I didn't anticipate meeting my husband online, but there he was. And it all worked out!

  

  Essence Atkins
  • Guy
  • Reason
  • Husband

• Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wings
  • Wraiths

• I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Help

• I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Drug
  • Bases
  • Habitual