Ethan Nadelmann Quotes
There's a sense that the drug war has proven its failure. Five or six years ago, people would say, "Well, we haven't really tried it." It's hard to say that with credibility any more. People tend to get bored with old ideas. and the war on drugs is becoming an old idea. There's a kind of natural pendulum or circularity, where people begin to think that change is inevitable. And that's going to happen in the drug area.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
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If you don't take care of the people doing the heavy lifting, they will burn your castle down.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.
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I know what needs to be done... We need to write a report "Putin. War", publish it in huge numbers and hand it out on the streets. We will tell how Putin unleashed this war. That's the only way to defeat propaganda.
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There's a sense that the drug war has proven its failure. Five or six years ago, people would say, "Well, we haven't really tried it." It's hard to say that with credibility any more. People tend to get bored with old ideas. and the war on drugs is becoming an old idea. There's a kind of natural pendulum or circularity, where people begin to think that change is inevitable. And that's going to happen in the drug area.
