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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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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But you know, my mom having to go to the hospital seven times... like passed out because of pain... I wouldn't come home and sit with my family and be with my dad - I'd call someone up and... I'd go and get obliterated drunk and I'd go, like, on two-week benders.
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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.
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Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
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A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.
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I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.
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Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
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Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
