Aspirin Quote by Richard Rodriguez

“For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.”

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America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

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We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

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Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

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“We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.”

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I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

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I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me…

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Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the…

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We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in…

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The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.

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The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

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You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.

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I don't even take aspirin.

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