Alcoholism Quotes - Page 10

• Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

  Henry Fielding

  Wine, Alcohol, Enemy

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• We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

  Conrad Black

  Commitment, Numbers, Views

  "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record". 1969.

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• I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's really important, that's a problem, like alcoholism and bad parenting. It's done in a funny, smart way.

  Justin Chatwin

  Smart, Issues, Laughing

  "Justin Chatwin Talks SHAMELESS Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 12, 2012.

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• My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.

  Josh McDowell

  Bible, Jesus, Dad

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• I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapid growth inherent in this froup they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism. These men may well have a remedy for thousands of such situations.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Growth

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• It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.

  Craig Benzine

  Trying, Lost

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• Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Broken, Progress

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

  Jack Dee

  Years, Firsts, Six

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• All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

  Pema Chodron

  Philosophy, Character, Medicine

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• Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite.

  Charles McGrath

  Powerful, Media, Doe

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• The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.

  John Bradshaw

  Hurt, Loneliness, Intimate Relationships

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• Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

  Charles Lamb

  Strong, Drinking, Men

  Charles Lamb (1856). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.271

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• Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Baby, Jobs, Cancer

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• He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

  Hannah More

  Taken, Sin, Guilty

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.287

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• I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mother, Home, Thinking

  "Angelina Jolie Gets Conservative in The Good Shepherd". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 18, 2006.

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• Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

  Don Winslow

  Drunk, Population, Substance

  "A Don Winslow on his amazing new book ‘The Cartel’ and America’s drug war". Interview with Drew Mcweeny, uproxx.com. July 01, 2015.

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• Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

  Carrie Fisher

  California, Addiction, Los Angeles

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

  Carrie Fisher

  Pain, Addiction, Mind

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

  Jennifer Stone

  Return

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Art, Drinking, Taste

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Sex, Drug, Kind

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often did. I was working on a pilot. My grandma was very sick at the time. She died of complications from alcoholism. She always used to say [in his grandma's voice], "Red wine is good for my heart. That's what my doctor said." And we'd say, "Yeah, but not for breakfast." Unfortunately, it was the thing that killed her. I felt inspired to write a song about her and what that meant for her life and for all of us. I was writing it in Michael's house.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Song, Grandma, Heart

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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