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• I'm drunk and high at the same time/Drinking champagne on the airplane.

  2 Chainz

  Drinking, Airplane, Drunk

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• I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Stars, Drinking, Eye

  Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Sleep, Climbing, Class

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teaching, Wine, Beer

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• I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

  Peter Higgs

  Asking, Lifetime, My Family

  "Higgs boson: it's unofficial! Cern scientists discover missing particle" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.

  Charlie Brooker

  Kings, Men, Years

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.212, Faber & Faber

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• Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Failing, Reason

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• There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

  Isak Dinesen

  Gratitude, Drunk, Heartfelt

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• If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

  Garry Kasparov

  Risk, Drink, Ifs

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• I think I might have a glass of champagne, if there is any in Nagpur, and just enjoy the moment.

  Alastair Cook

  Thinking, Glasses, Might

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Regret, Wine, Sleep

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• Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Dry

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• The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.

  Robertson Davies

  Tea, Facts, Sides

  "The Girl with the Swansdown Seat/Abode of Love/1848". 1956.

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• Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.

  Tanith Lee

  Inspiration, Writing, Driven

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• Tequila?" I asked him, skeptically. "Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne." "Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?" Bob said. "Uh. I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Differences, Long

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.93, Penguin Group

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• You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

  Michael Schur

  Thinking, Work Out, Leopards

  "Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation's fourth season". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 19, 2012.

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• the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

  Hakim Bey

  Fall, Glasses, Water

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.54, Autonomedia

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• Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Wind, Criticism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.55

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• Coquetry is the champagne of love.

  Thomas Hood

  Coquette, Coquetry

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• I was selling real estate at the time, in Pacific Palisades, California, so imagine that: getting a note and a bottle of champagne from Jack Nicholson when I'd barely made a dime as an actor. It really kept me going.

  Kurt Fuller

  Real, California, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."

  Robert Orben

  Couple, Hero, Night

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• Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

  Les Claypool

  Life, Fun, Swimming

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• If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

  Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

  Food, Wine, Lunch

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• They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they will probably fill it with champagne, something you should never do to a baby.

  Alan Parry

  Baby, Player, Rooms

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• People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Spiritual, Mistake, People

  Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties”, p.324, Applewood Books

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