Alcoholics Quotes - Page 14

• Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

  Robert Heller

  Information, Enormous, Booze

  "Research in light of a dark tunnel". Audit AGB research. London, Spring 1973.

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• I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Character, Divorce

  Interview with David Cronenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Kids, Alcohol, Becoming

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.

  Maya Angelou

  Hands, Mouths, Arms

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• Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Wine, Thinking, Iron

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• You can become an alcoholic working in an office in Los Angeles. It's very easy to say because I do this shameful job I take drugs or drink, but the real reason prostitutes take drugs and drink is because prostitution is a party area. It's not about desperation, it's the surroundings.

  Michael Glawogger

  Jobs, Real, Party

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Fun, Drinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

  T.C. Boyle

  Drug, Want, Depressive

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drink, Enjoy, Known

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• I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.

  Al Murray

  Fighter, Taliban, Freedom Fighter

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• The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, Grandchildren, Thinking

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.70, Seven Stories Press

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• Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Drinking, Artist, Suffering

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said, 'I only do drugs so I can drink more'. I was doing the coke so I could drink more. I mean, I don't know any other reason. I'd start drinking in the morning. I'd drink all day long.

  Dennis Hopper

  Morning, Drinking, Mean

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

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• Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

  James Purdy

  Broken, Journalist, Broken Down

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

  James Purdy

  Ideas, Haze, Wells

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent crime because you can really never truly recover from that." It's a story pitfall.

  Julie Plec

  Character, Giving, Pitfalls

  Source: collider.com

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• If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.

  Mel White

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

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• Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic.

  Granger Smith

  Drinking, Pirate, Rum

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• Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

  Zig Ziglar

  Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Aa Meeting

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• Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

  Harry Browne

  Army, Government, Microsoft

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• I was court-ordered to Alcoholics Anonymous on television. Pretty much blows the hell out of the second A, wouldn't you say?

  Paula Poundstone

  Blow, Television, Hell

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• I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

  Stan Getz

  Years, Two, Habit

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

  Bob Saget

  Used, Horrible, Drinkers

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2012

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• I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

  Andrew Solomon

  Growing Up, Gay, Self

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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