Ethan Nadelmann Quotes
Of the huge part of our generation who have used drugs, how many have told their parents, to this day, even though they are now successful professionals and parents and what have you? There's a need to come out of the closet and talk openly about drug use. As things stand, the only kind of use that is visible is either the dysfunctional drug use or the media portraits of it. So there's this incredibly skewed view of what drugs are about.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
-
The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
-
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
-
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
-
I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
-
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
-
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
-
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
-
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
-
It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
-
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
-
The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
-
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
-
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
-
Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
-
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
-
I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
-
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
-
From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.
-
Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.
-
I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.
-
Of the huge part of our generation who have used drugs, how many have told their parents, to this day, even though they are now successful professionals and parents and what have you? There's a need to come out of the closet and talk openly about drug use. As things stand, the only kind of use that is visible is either the dysfunctional drug use or the media portraits of it. So there's this incredibly skewed view of what drugs are about.
