Alcohol Quotes - Page 16

• If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Meaningful, Drug, Rooms

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Marijuana, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I tried to eat better too, but when you're on tour you literally just eat some hideous pork pie on the motorway on the way to a show. It's a really unhealthy lifestyle: you're up late, drinking loads of coffee to stay awake, drinking loads of alcohol because you're socialising with people.

  Jo Brand

  Drinking, Coffee, Pie

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.

  John Lydon

  Running, Self, Doubters

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I know my grandfather drank occasionally socially, what we call "taking a sip." And my father never touched the bottle. He condemned my grandfather for doing that, and his punishment to his father was when my grandfather came to visit him from Georgia, he would not allow my grandfather to preach in his church.Even though my classmates very often drank alcohol in my presence and they would try and get me to join in, I felt, no, I didn't need that.

  David C. Driskell

  Father, Punishment, Church

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Boys are very basic. If we get food, alcohol, and maybe cigarettes and occasionally some sex, we're pretty cool. We're pretty chilled. What you see is what you get. It's not so many layers. Women are a little bit more complicated, which is why we keep falling in love with you all again and again and again and again.

  Johan Philip Asbaek

  Falling In Love, Love You, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like the sexy clothes put a bar between you. It's like putting an alcohol drenched piece of wood between you and the person, and it's inviting them to be able to think and say the things that they hate about themselves.

  Thandie Newton

  Sexy, Hate, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Tequila is my drink. It is my favorite alcohol, my favorite liquor because, you know, it's a stimulant and not a depressant. If I go to a party and everyone's been drinking and I don't have time to really "catch up" - I'm not trying to get drunk but I want to feel good - I drink tequila.

  Mike Colter

  Party, Drinking, Drunk

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm not quite Honoré de Balzac, but I can't start without a strong espresso. After an hour and a half or so, I need another. Nothing else, mind, and certainly not alcohol. Can't imagine anything more ridiculous than drink-writing.

  Paul Lynch

  Strong, Mind, Ridiculous

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• It's very easy for me to feel sympathy for people who are messed up. It's not that I'm a pseudo-saint or a great person. I had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohol when I was younger, and I know how easy it can be to mess up the rest of your life. One bad turn, one bad night, one big mistake, and everything is screwed up. Or maybe you were just born in the wrong house and raised in a bad way. I guess I can understand.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Mistake, Night, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In terms of the economy, the wealth which is not tangible, either good or deficit, things like insurance, pension, stocks, shares, etc., they will be prohibited because you're supposed to deal with things, which are goods, which you can see, which you can trade with.

  Anjem Choudary

  Drinking, Wealth, Economy

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails.

  Glenn Loury

  Real, People, Addiction

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm going to keep drinking on stage. I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. I know how far to go and when to stop.

  Matt Berninger

  Drinking, Healthy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

  W. C. Fields

  Trust, Water, Sticks

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• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Wine, Average, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 14, 2010

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• 'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy.

  Christian Louboutin

  Depressing, Feelings, Bottles

  "Stuart Weitzman: Nudist makes him stars' favourite shoe designer of 2014" by Hannah Marriott, www.theguardian.com. December 24, 2014.

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• And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

  Betty Ford

  Patient, Speak, Drink

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• Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drunk, Funny Alcohol

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• I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?

  Koren Zailckas

  Girl, Father, Party

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• [I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

  Homer

  Wine, Men, Wisest Man

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.481, Penguin

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• The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.

  Alice Sebold

  Coffee, Dark, People

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• Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

  Terry Pratchett

  World

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• The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.

  Scott Adams

  Differences, Marketing, Criminals

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• Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Butterfly, Blue

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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