Mark Haskell Smith famous quotes

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing ***** plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.
-- Mark Haskell Smith

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In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.
-- Mark Haskell Smith

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What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs? I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps. We like him. But he's not smart. He hasn't invented anything or saved people's lives. He's a guy with abs, and we celebrate these abs.
-- Mark Haskell Smith

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"What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs?" I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps. We like him. But he's not smart. He hasn't invented anything or saved people's lives. He's a guy with abs, and we celebrate these abs.
-- Mark Haskell Smith

#Smart #Mean #People

Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.

Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

I smoked pot in college and in the Army...

I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.