Alcohol Quotes
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When I became an adult, I had absolutely nothing against drinking alcohol. Many of my friends drank. I would often make wine and offer it, but I never sat down and drank it myself. That affect my religious practice.
David C. Driskell
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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.
Abraham Lincoln
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I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.
David Bowie
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I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.
Jimmy Buffett
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All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.
Beatrice Webb
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Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
Padgett Powell
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I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead
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...it was clear to everyone at the table who had any experience with men and alcohol—especially men who had won international literary prizes—that he was not going to stop talking at any point in the meal.
Ben Lerner
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My back and hip situation is well-documented. Last Friday, the pain was so bad that I took a lot of pain pills. But that didn't seem to work, so I succumbed to temptation and went and bought a bottle. ... I have a problem with alcohol.
Eddie Sutton
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As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
Geoff Mulgan
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Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
Rita Mae Brown
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
Thomas A. Edison
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Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.
Bohumil Hrabal
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We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
William Duncan Silkworth
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I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.
Evan Dando
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I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.
Trisha Goddard
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Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise—and the faeries’ undoing—they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts of Coke, she was able to discover a single faerie’s true name.
Kiersten White
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
Queen Victoria
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
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Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake poses. The inconspicuous ice cubes often hide the invisible sell - invisible, that is, to the conscious mind.
Wilson Bryan Key
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I used alcohol for my panic attacks, to manage stressors.
Bill N. Lacy
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The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther Dyson
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I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.
William Penn