"I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy."
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"One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology."
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"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism."
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"I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it."
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"Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous."
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"I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different."
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"We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music."
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"Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind."
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"Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You're Doing It Wrong."
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"[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts."
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"The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs."
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"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
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"The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world"
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"I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal."
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"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."
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"Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that."
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"I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all."
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"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."
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"So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs."
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"I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?"
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