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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Smoking

"It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars."

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Neil Marshall Film Director, Screenwriter
Smoking

"But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Smoking

"To me, smoking pot meant sitting with a newspaper on my legs, rolling the seeds down, pulling the twigs out and finally producing a perfectly cylindrical, absolutely wonderful joint that you either locked at both ends or pinched off, or pinched at one end and left open at the other."

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Kid Rock Musician, Actor
Smoking

"One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that."

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John Green Author, YouTuber
Smoking

"He lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes."

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John Lennon Musician, Activist
Smoking

"The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time."

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Juan Williams Journalist
Smoking

"It's almost a shock to me to go into places, and there's smoking these days. Boy, my life has changed, because everybody used to smoke."

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"She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady."

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