Alcoholics Quotes - Page 11

• I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• [ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

  Mac DeMarco

  Giving Up, Moving, School

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

  Russell Brand

  Drinking, Addiction, Alcohol

  "My life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• I have a lot of friends who come from alcoholic families, and they aren't alcoholics, because someone explained it to them. When I was in Washington DC, they really talked about the difference statistically between families that talk about drug addiction and ones that don't. The kids that can say "I see where this is going" have a much better chance of not becoming addicts, because they have been educated.

  Nikki Sixx

  Kids, Differences, Addiction

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Wine, School

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• The reality is [in] any emotional situation, a compulsive eater eats or an alcoholic
  drinks. What people misunderstand is that when you're a compulsive overeater,
  you don't just eat when things are bad. You eat when you feel anything.

  Jeff Garlin

  Reality, Emotional, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.

  Elton John

  Self, Drug, Sides

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Religious, Acceptance

  Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing

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• If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Past, Thinking, Two

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• As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

  Robin Williams

  Drinking, Alcohol, Standards

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2009.

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• To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

  Chris Prentiss

  Giving Up, People, Change For The Better

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.108, BookBaby

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• I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

  Kenny Hickey

  Home, Should, Recovering

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• Iran is celebrating the nuclear deal. The Iranians are going crazy. They're drinking non-alcoholic champagne and thinking about dancing. That's how excited they are.

  Conan O'Brien

  Crazy, Drinking, Thinking

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• Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would answer, 'Even if true, act as if it were false, for you will never identify that one in twenty, and in the attempt five in twenty will be ruined.' Investors should forsake the search for such tiny needles in huge haystacks.

  Paul Samuelson

  Tiny, Twenties, Investing

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• The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.

  William H. Gass

  Drinking, Eye, Animal

  William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Beer, Men, Alcohol

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• The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suicide, Two, Years

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.32, Bantam

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• Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

  Alfred Jarry

  Food, Water, Cooking

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• Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Drinking, Artist

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• Montreal's not a city. It's a Disney World for alcoholics.

  Mike Wilmot

  Cities, World, Montreal

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• I'm the son of a pastor and evangelist and I've described many times how my father, when I was a child, was an alcoholic. He was not a Christian. And my father left my mother and left me when I was just three years old. And someone invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church. And he gave his heart to Jesus and it turned him around. And he got on a plane and he flew back to my mother and me.

  Ted Cruz

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.

  Emily Yoffe

  Teenager, Character, Thinking

  "Short Haul". "Dear Prudence" with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. August 17, 2015.

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• We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic. We're in denial that each and every one of us is the problem. And until we face up to that, nothing's going to happen.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Citizens, Denial, Faces

  "Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard". The Vertical Interview, theusualmontauk.com. October 22, 2016.

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• When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Demon

  "'Hey, You Can Just Make Stuff Up.' Differences Between Magic And Art: None" by Peter Bebergal, "The Believer", 2013.

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• I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Drug, Drug Addict, Addict

  Source: www.nola.com

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