Straight Edge
Tim and his bandmates, except for Barnes, are straight edge; a lifestyle that eliminates drugs, alcohol and tobacco, but can also encompass other things seen as potentially addictive such as promiscuous sex or caffeine.
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Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or edge:
“While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.”
—Li Po (701–762)
“My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan’s life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)