Alcohol Quotes - Page 30

• With some guys, drugs became a way of life. They went through tremendous personality changes, or they died. Drugs didn't do them any good. In the same way, at certain times in my life, alcohol didn't do me any good. A lot of kids today seem to be taking themselves, their health and their education more seriously, and that's good.

  Greg Noll

  Kids, Personality, Guy

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.115, North Atlantic Books

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• A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?

  Martin Bashir

  Teenage, Beer, Taste

  "Bashir: Romney Not Presidential Material Because He Doesn't Drink". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

  James Francis

  Men, Intoxicated

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• I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

  Rima Fakih

  Fun, Having Fun, Needs

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  I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Mean, Drug

  MTV News Online, 1992.

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• If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.

  Macklemore

  Mean, Drug, Given

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• Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

  Graeme Simsion

  Drinking, Risk, Research

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya... but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.

  Tommy Chong

  Littles, Acid, Quitting

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• Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

  Glen Duncan

  Sibling, Grateful, Long

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.124, Canongate Books

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• The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful.

  Matthew Polly

  Believe, Blind Spots, Chinese

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• I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.

  Ron Willingham

  Jobs, Integrity, Divorce

  Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business

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• Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

  Chris Prentiss

  Successful, Drug, Doe

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.110, BookBaby

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• Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Sexy, Ice, Cubes

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• It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

  Gillian Flynn

  Summer, Senior, Dirty

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Education, Challenges

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

  John Conyers

  Gambling, Online, Currents

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• It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

  William Shakespeare

  Desire, Mars, May

  Macbeth II. 3

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• Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beer, Doe, Spirit

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• I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughing, Usual, Ends

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.83

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• There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

  Aleister Crowley

  Running, Risk, Safe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

  Colin Greenwood

  Play, Pressure, Volume

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• Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Mean, Climbing, Addiction

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• Alcohol is not the answer to all questions

  Swami Vivekananda

  Answers

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• Alcohol is the number one addictive drug in our day.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Numbers, Drug

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• The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Ideas, Scare, Novel

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