Andres Oppenheimer Quotes
Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.

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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
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I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
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A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
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My favorite candy bar is a PayDay.
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I think we would define the role for us in the future as helping customers in what we would call an energy-banking concept.
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In terms of the energy-banking concept, what we'd love to be able to do is to act in a way where customers could deposit excess energy when they didn't need it and withdraw it when they did need it.
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I think - I’ll have my staff get to you. It’s condominiums where - I’ll have them get to you.
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We drink our morning coffee with a drop of fear.
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You're an asshole! You're an asshole! That's right! You're an asshole! You're an asshole! Yes yes!
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A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.
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I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.
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Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.