Amanda Palmer Quotes

A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.

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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

• 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

• Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• 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

• Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Health
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• 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

• I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Morning

• By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Country
  • Real

• 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

• I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Power
  • Today
  • Drug

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

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Drug

• We're not masturbating around with some research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole and only point was to make a *usable* system. It's why it's not some crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Why
  • Crazy
  • Drug

• I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately this form of expression and decided to limit the production of 'ready-mades' to a small number yearly. I was aware at that time, that for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'ready-mades' against such contamination.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Time
  • Art
  • Small

• 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

• Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Time
  • Free
  • Understanding

• May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Technology

• May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • May
  • Negative

• The birds sing their heads off first thing in the morning and last thing at night but they don’t understand what God is, do they?

  

  Michael Eavis
  • Understand
  • Sing
  • Birds

• A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Drug