Joe Budden Quotes

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

I'm selfish.

Now that I'm gone, I tell you: Don't smoke! Whatever you do, just don't smoke!

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

Nicotine is as addicting as heroin or cocaine.

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

I smoke, I want to get rid of the habit.

I think about only me.

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

I'm going to stop smoking. I'm not such a good smoker, anyway. It's not in my bones. I'm gonna drop it.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.

There's no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton will stop smoking cigars, will never smoke them again, as a result of what he did with that cigar.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.

Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don't smoke... tumors.

Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.