Alcoholics Quotes - Page 13

• I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

  Gary Oldman

  Jobs, Father, Anger

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• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Alcohol, Mind

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.

  Nicki Minaj

  Children, Men, Want

  "Nicki Minaj: 'I have bigger balls than the boys'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Recovery, Tired, Health

  "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

  Roger Ebert

  Hangover, Drunk, Trying

  Roger Ebert's review of "Smashed", www.rogerebert.com. October 17, 2012.

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• My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the bishops are supportive of it because they see people's lives being changed. They see the difference. I see people who've been in prison, whose lives have been messed up, who've been alcoholics, who've been drug addicts, set free and contributing to society.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Spiritual, Country, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Running, Drinking

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• I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as the intention to serve and protect the lives of the innocent within the animal kingdom. I wanted to test myself, to see if I was able to overcome the dire situation that I was headed toward. By this of course I mention the fact that I was an alcoholic and drug addict before I left to live in the wild.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Animal, Drug, Overcoming

  "Steve Irwin - Interview With Timothy Treadwell - the Grizzly Man". Interview with Steve Irwin, desteni.org. June 1, 2007.

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• In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a single parent. My father had abandoned us. He was an alcoholic and a physical abuser. My mother lived through that tyranny and made her living as a domestic worker. She was uneducated but she brought high principles and decent values into our existence, and she set lofty goals for herself and for her children. We were forever inspired by her strength and by her resistance to racism and to fascism.

  Harry Belafonte

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes, or heroin? Of course not. And there is NO such thing as a rational - or ethical - meat, dairy, egg and honey-eater when it comes to animal issues and whether humans should be enslaving, murdering and eating animals, or using them as test subjects, clothing and entertainment.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Eggs, Issues

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Tunnels, Vision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Reality, Garden, Years

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.18, Vintage

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• No one wants to say they hate their own body. Many are scared that if they confide in others then people will look down on them. This is wrong. It's not weak to talk about it. On the contrary. It's the same with alcoholics and drug addicts - you have to be honest with yourself first. When you have accepted the negatives you can then focus on the positives, like, I have nice hair, nice eyes, great cheekbones.

  Crystal Renn

  Nice, Hate, Eye

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Drinking, Cat

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• I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.

  David Nicholls

  Moving, Heart, Ideas

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• Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.

  Steig Larsson

  Couple, Together, Liquor Stores

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• No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

  Jeannette Walls

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  "The Glass Castle". Book by Jeannette Walls, 2010.

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• If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

  Caprice Crane

  Glasses, Liquid, Ifs

  Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.20, Bantam

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• Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.

  Irvine Welsh

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important to keep beer fun, relevant and in step with the changing preferences of adults who enjoy beer.

  Pat McGauley

  Fun, Wine, Beer

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• Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Beer, Wife

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• Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Drinking, Alcohol

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• "What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Thinking, Dysfunction, Drug

  "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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• I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

  Richard Harris

  Groups, Drink, Members

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