Quotes with alcohol

  • There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
  • The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
  • And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
    Major Barbara (1907)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marguerite Duras Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Raymond Chandler Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Marley Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
    As recorded in filmed interview (1979)
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Frank Sinatra Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
    Frank Sinatra
    American singer, actor, and producer (1915 - 1998)
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  • Betty Ford And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Winston Churchill I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Jim Carrey I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
    Jim Carrey
    Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist and screenwriter (1962 - )
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  • Shirley Chisholm It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • Jean Cocteau Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • George Orwell No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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