Risk Behavior Quotes

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

Drug dealers live vicariously through me

The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.

You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that.

Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.

I got high, and forgot I wasn't supposed to get high.

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

TV in the middle of my steering wheel.

This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

When rewards go up, people are more inclined to take risks.

The most dangerous age is 14. If you know any teenagers, this might not come as a surprise, but research has confirmed that risk-taking peaks during this exact moment in mid-adolescence.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.