Top 1200 Drug Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

I am deeply troubled by Mylan's misclassification of the EpiPen as a generic drug.

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

I used to believe that you could change the culture or behavior of a company. I still believe it's possible, but it is at least a five to ten year process, if you are successful at all. More recently, I have been attracted to the ideas of the behavioralist, Edgar Schein. Schein has argued that you cannot change the culture of a company, but you can use the culture of a company to create change. It's an interesting approach to overcoming resistance. And if you can change how a company does its work, you might eventually be able to change how its people think.

Chicks can make you flip more than any drug would.

There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents. For any child, that's the bottom line. The fact is that a human child wants that mommy or daddy or both.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.

Europe's experiment with multiculturalism, or the side-by-side existence of different cultures, has failed throughout the continent. Integration requires a minimum basis of shared values, that is, a culture of mutual tolerance and respect - in other words, what constitutes the heart of European culture.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

I think Trump's going to make it easier to be a drug company in America.

Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that's something they want us to forget. What better way to remember than to highlight all of our differences as a singular people across the globe?

I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything.

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.

We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy." The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going on and it's been building since the modern era of the feminazis began, since the late sixties and early seventies.

It is vital that we communicate to seniors their options regarding prescription drug assistance.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me over my right to tell this story - as a woman or a foreigner. A people who cherish their culture and history and the films that have captured that culture.

A vigorous and profitable drug industry is not a problem to be solved but a goal to be encouraged.

Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless.

One of the things I'm most proud of is I went through my entire career drug-free.

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

If you ask me, I'd say what the world now considers K-Pop began with SM Entertainment. SM was the very first company to take musical influences from Western culture and incorporate Korean culture into that by rearranging and writing lyrics with our style.

I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

The status quo on prescription drug prices is deeply broken and unsustainable.

So much of my life and my style and sensibility are influenced by skateboarding. It's counter-culture and skateboarding is my introduction to counter-culture.

When the price of a drug rises, it becomes profitable and the target of new competition.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions from oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which is nourished by the living reality of its environment, and which negates both harmful influences and any kind of subjection to foreign culture. Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily an act of culture

That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark matter, something essentially inaccessible to us. When in fact there is an ancient discipline called anthropology that's pretty good at thinking about it.

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.

I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."

The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.

It has been a top priority of Congress to reduce the drug costs of all seniors.

Have you ever thought about why, all over the world, in every culture, in every society, there are a few days in the year for celebration? These few days for celebration are just a compensation - because these societies have taken away all celebration in your life, and if nothing is given to you in compensation, your life can become a danger to the culture. Every culture has to give some compensation to you so that you don't feel completely lost in misery, in sadness. But these compensations are false.

Viagra is a drug, just like cocaine. It can cause you to become addicted.

Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

I was ashamed. My son is a drug addict. What does this mean about me?

For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of sewing is ending. Now is a time for rending, not for the sake of disengaging from culture or retreating from the public square, but so that our salt does not lose its savor.

I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

The value that the generic drug industry brings to the U.S. healthcare system is indisputable.