Colin Cotterill Quotes

Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...

Colin Cotterill

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• Disguise
• Mistakenly

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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

• I have never believed in the impossible.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Never
  • Impossible
  • Believed

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Patience
  • Alcohol
  • Stupidity

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Alcohol

• 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 try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Good
  • Water
  • Yoga

• Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Power
  • Today
  • Freedom

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Man
  • Opinion

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

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Smoke

• What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Nothing
  • Democrat
  • Disguise

• Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

  

  Tacitus
  • Things
  • Believed
  • Greater

• 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

• But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

  

  Jack Herer
  • You
  • Alcohol
  • Legal

• 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

• Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

  

  Jack London
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Alcohol

• Michael Jackson was adamantly against drugs and alcohol, he was extremely straight-laced; I couldn’t even swear around him. Being with Michael brought me back to my innocence.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Alcohol

• I think Prince was heads, hands and feet about all the rest of them, I thought he left (Michael) Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don't kid yourself, that's what he did. Slowly, I'll grant you … but that's what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Death
  • Rest
  • Prince

• It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug.

  

  John Hunter
  • Good
  • Long
  • Period

• My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

  

  Algernon Blackwood
  • Theatre
  • Alcohol

• I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Job
  • Books
  • Barack Obama

• God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

  

  William Nicholson
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Selfish

• Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Alcohol
  • Believed
  • Disguise