Brian Christian Quotes

In 2010 and 2015, the FDA released a pair of draft guidance documents on Adaptive Design clinical trials for drugs and medical devices, which suggests—despite a long history of sticking to an option they trust—that they might at last be willing to explore alternatives.

Brian Christian

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• Drugs scared me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Scared
  • Drugs

• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• I only get ill when I give up drugs...

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Drugs
  • Give Up

• The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Real
  • Job
  • Crazy

• I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Road
  • Drugs

• My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let's be clear about that.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Together
  • Generation
  • Drugs

• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

  

  Courtney Love
  • Music
  • Creation
  • Dumb

• I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Good
  • Long
  • Deal

• I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs, so they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Gentleman
  • Doctor
  • Drugs

• Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Rock

• Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Food
  • Leave
  • Drugs

• Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Christianity
  • Drugs
  • Consolations

• No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Drugs
  • Achieved
  • Proved

• I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Drugs
  • Died
  • Lover

• It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Advice
  • Alcohol
  • Musicians

• In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Experience
  • Creativity
  • Drugs

• The rules followed are tight enough to produce a broad overlap in the decisions taken by all individuals and hence a convergence powerful enough to be labelled human nature.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Taken
  • Powerful

• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  

  C. J. Dennis
  • World
  • Morning
  • Gold

• Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Dance
  • Arms
  • Surrounded

• Loose ends are cool... Loose ends mean that you are still living your life. The person who dies with the most loose ends wins.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Person
  • Living
  • Dies

• In 2010 and 2015, the FDA released a pair of draft guidance documents on Adaptive Design clinical trials for drugs and medical devices, which suggests—despite a long history of sticking to an option they trust—that they might at last be willing to explore alternatives.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Drugs
  • FDA
  • Adaptive Design