Alcohol Quotes - Page 16

• I do a lot of drug and alcohol speaking with people to stop addictions. I'm not a Bible-thumper. I don't preach like that. I tell people that has addictions: "If you want your addiction cured, it begins right here. It begins right here." Jesus Christ is not a genie in a bottle. You got me? Jesus Christ can help you get through anything but even with addiction, he's not going to say 'hocus pocus, your addiction's gone'! You have to say: "I'm done!" It all begins right here in your mind.

  Sam Childers

  Jesus, People, Addiction

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do not believe that marijuana is a gateway drug, and having been a mayor trying to keep my community safe, if there was any drug that was driving violence, more than marijuana, it was alcohol which is legal. And so I just don't think this is a gateway drug. And by the way, if you regulate it you're actually going to overcome a lot of problems with people having to go to the streets to buy their drug. You don't know how dangerous that is.

  Cory Booker

  Believe, Marijuana, Thinking

  Source: hightimes.com

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• I don't know if enjoy is the right word for alcohol. I like to drink, but I don't like enforced social drinking. When I don't wanna drink, I don't wanna drink. I haven't had a desire to drink for four months. When I think of the taste of it, no desire. The trouble is the wines I love I can barely afford, which is a great method to cut down on your drinking: Drink only what you can't afford.

  Nick Tosches

  Drinking, Wine, Cutting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I love fighting. One thing that is the key to that is I always love training. I love to. And I never drink before, no alcohol in my life, no smoke, nothing. I love training.

  Joshua Clottey

  Fighting, Training, Drink

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Doctors are taught in medical school that people ususally underreport their alcohol and drug use, so we genreal double the amount we're told. Don't be insulted if your doctor asks follow-up questions about yout drinking. We're trying to be diligent so we don't miss an alcohol or drug disorfer that could be amenable to treatment.

  Danielle Ofri

  Drinking, School, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I believe I was born an addict, and alcoholic. The first time I drank alcohol, I just wanted more and more. During my teens and early 20s I did not drink often, but when I did, it was with great gusto. That is, I always drank enough to get drink.

  Ruben Castaneda

  Believe, Drink, Enough

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We live in a culture of quick fixes. We want to feel better and we want to feel better now. I believe that's why many turn to alcohol and drugs because they want to numb the pain of life. In my life I have a choice. I can sit with my depression and look at Jesus or I can sit with Jesus and look at my depression. What I mean by that is I can focus on what's broken and wonder where God is or I can sit in the companionship of Christ who suffered for us and worship him in the middle of the mess. That gives my pain meaning and context.

  Sheila Walsh

  Jesus, Pain, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The thing that still exists is that if it's at all possible for me to step outside the club after the show, because I still haven't encountered any comedy clubs that - legally they can't have weed smoking and alcohol at the same facility, pretty much in all the states that have legalized, that's part of the deal. And, unfortunately, comedy clubs make all their money from the selling alcohol part of it. So, since there are no venues I can smoke with the fans in, I step outside and pretty much every show I do there are some people out there and we have a nice little session.

  Doug Benson

  Weed, Nice, People

  Source: hightimes.com

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• Be careful of things like alcohol and drugs.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Drug, Be Careful, Careful

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• For many years, I was a really heavy drinker, but people don't know about that because I'm by myself all the time. Recently, I didn't drink for eight or nine months, and I learned that alcohol was quadrupling the embarrassing moments - those moments when you're drunk and you say something you remember the next morning and feel embarrassed about.

  Fiona Apple

  Morning, People, Drunk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd be sheltered from evil secular influences - sex, drugs, alcohol, and a questioning mentality. A place where children would be forced to become good little clones of their parents.

  Julia Scheeres

  Children, Kids, Evil

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our relationship with alcohol is a hologram for how human beings relate to the natural world. When you get to that level of brown liquor - an age distillate of a fermented thing, grain that we learned how to plant and make grow - it is in some ways the best expression of what humans are able to do. Nobody else can make that! And it's delicious.

  Adam Rogers

  Age, World, Natural

  "POLITICS ENVIRONMENT FOOD MEDIA CRIME & JUSTICE PHOTOS INVESTIGATIONS MAGAZINE SUBSCRIBE DONATE I Went Drinking With the Author of “Proof,” This New Book on the Science of Booze". Interview With Alex Park, www.motherjones.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Well, I haven't been an impulsive guy lately because I'm not in control of my own life. I'm living other peoples' requirements at the moment. It's the part of the job that is the most difficult for actors. I'm finding it very soul-jailing, you know? You don't have time to play guitar or speak to your friends and family. It's very demanding. I don't know how people do it, to be honest, without an alcohol.

  Brenton Thwaites

  People, Guy, Family And Friends

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• Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Food, Humor

  Without Feathers "Selections from the Allen Notebooks" (1975)

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• It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophical, Thirsty

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

  Michael Badnarik

  War, Humor, Average

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• Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

  Michael Badnarik

  Humor, Marijuana Prohibition, Drug

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• I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

  Brendan Behan

  Summer, Beer, Winter

  "Brendan Behan Dies in Dublin", www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1964.

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• Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wine, Alcoholism, Treacherous

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• There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

  Bill Bryson

  Government, Years, America

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• The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

  Luis Bunuel

  Depressing, Time, May

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• If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

  Samuel Butler

  Drinking, Beer, Religion

  "The Guardian view on drinking culture: statistics, myths and alcohol abuse", www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

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• Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

  Drew Carey

  Humor, America, Drug

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1997.

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• Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.

  Amy Chua

  Sleep, Kids, Practice

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• 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.

  Evan Dando

  Thinking, Mushrooms, Important

  "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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