David Hockney Quotes

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.

It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't.

It [cigarette smoking] has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes Cigarettes.

This is the first time that the Federal Government has told a free people what kind of government they must have. If they can do that, they can tell you what time to go to bed, what time to get up, and whether to have pork and beans for lunch.

In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

I can live my life, I can be at Disneyland and eat fried chicken, and that's my choice.