Daniel Fried Quotes
Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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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!
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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.
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We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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Selfishness is blind.
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If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
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iphone therefore I am.
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Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
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Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
