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[from trailer] Frank Lucas: The man I worked for had one of the biggest companies in New York City. He didn't own his own company. White man owned it, so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though.

American Gangster

You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start c...

Vivek Wadhwa

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Anita Borg

When you push someone's head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn't matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It's just a natural process. If their head is under water, the lack of oxygen will make them drown. That rule applies to ...

Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey

People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine that is responsible for many of our pleasure responses- than do people genetically disinclined to alcoholism. Alcohol will slightly raise the ...

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Jordan Belfort: [on getting arrested] I'm sober for two years, stopped my drugs, settled down with my wife and kids, and then this happens! Rugrat gets busted down in Miami, and guess who happens to be with him? Saurel! That's right, out of all the S...

The Wolf of Wall Street

I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.

Karen Kain

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

Peter Zumthor

But the process should not be confused with science. When tests are used as selections devices, they're not a neutral tool; . For one thing, the tests tend to screen out - or repel - those who would upset the correlation. If a man can't get into the ...

The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation

It is so small secret that many writers are also alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual deviants, or habitual wearers of blue jeans (in some cases all of the above).

Editorial

Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.

Flaws of Oblivion

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

Full Dark, No Stars

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

The Bone Clocks

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

Bluebeard

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

The House of the Scorpion

Viagra increases bloodflow to the penis, but what drug increases bloodflow to the brain?

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

If you don’t know how to deal with emotion, other people’s feelings can hit you like a drug.

The Kitchen Daughter

I could help you,” I said. “Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.

Notorious Nineteen

A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal.

Love Addict: Sex, Romance, and Other Dangerous Drugs