George Jung quotes
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“Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it.”
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“So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.”
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“Danbury wasnt a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.”
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“Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle,”
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“The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.”
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“May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.”
-- George JungSource : "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.
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“Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.”
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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. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent.”
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“I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.”
-- George JungSource : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
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“The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.”
-- George JungSource : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
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“Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.”
-- George JungSource : "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.
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“I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.”
-- George JungSource : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
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“I felt that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing because I was supplying a product to people that wanted it and it was accepted. I mean nobody really was making any negative statements about marijuana.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.”
-- George JungSource : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
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“I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was.”
-- George JungSource : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
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“Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Smoking marijuana - or most everybody who smokes marijuana deals it in small amounts to their friends, innocently enough. I think it's innocently enough.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“If somebody had come to me and said will you move heroin, I would have told them no.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Any marijuana transaction I ever did with anyone, there were never any guns involved, ever.”
-- George JungSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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