Steve Martin Quotes

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

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• I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Weak

• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Drink
  • Smoke
  • Stayed

• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• I like the effect drink has on me.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Me
  • Like
  • Drink

• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Morning
  • My Life

• I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Ideas
  • Working
  • Dead

• I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Smoke

• It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Good
  • Drink
  • Common Sense

• 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.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Fear

• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Bad
  • Alcohol
  • Addiction

• Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. … They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Alcohol

• Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

  

  Marguerite Duras
  • Up
  • God
  • Destiny

• Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Sleep
  • Brain
  • Alcohol

• I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • Alcohol

• With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • Why
  • Question
  • Drinking

• I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.

  

  Jessie J
  • Happy
  • Party
  • Drunk

• And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

  

  Alberto Juantorena
  • Good
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Experience
  • Want

• There will be increasing temptation to watch movies where you want to when you want to, and so I'm very focused on how we innovate Illumination Entertainment to keep the in-theater experience vibrant and urgent. In part I think it's what movies you're choosing to make and why those are films we feel are best enjoyed surrounded by a group of people. I also think it's continuing to look at things technologically.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • People
  • Film
  • Temptation

• I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Day
  • Ideas
  • Challenges

• There are fires, vast and endless, that burn in me for you. And I will carry them until you are ready to walk through the Flames of me.

  

  William C. Hannon
  • Carry
  • Burn
  • Flames

• When we bought it, Spiegel was in a difficult situation; it made a loss at that time. We invested in it and then it turned around, and then we bought Eddie Bauer and Newport News.

  

  Michael Otto
  • Difficult
  • Situation
  • Around

• Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Drink
  • Alcohol