Alcoholics Quotes - Page 2

• It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.

  Patton Oswalt

  Running, Country, Dad

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• For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Wine, Beer, Years

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• No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

  William Lyon Mackenzie

  War, Ethos, Effort

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• The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.

  Pete Coors

  Drinking, Giving, Support

  Meet the Press Debate, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2004.

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• Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Addiction, Knows, Addict

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• I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Thinking, Trying, Disease

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• I am a recovering alcoholic.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Recovering, Recovering Alcoholics

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• In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

  Christopher Plummer

  Writing, Turns

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• The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Coffee, Wine, Discovery

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.52, Editorial MAXTOR

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• If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.

  Paul Lynde

  Comedy, Ifs

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• I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

  Gordon Strachan

  Home, Bridges, Wrecks

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• I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

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• The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.

  John Bradshaw

  Hurt, Loneliness, Intimate Relationships

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• Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Men, Organization

  "Corporate Man". The New York Times, January 22, 1984.

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• What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

  Ronnie Wood

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• I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

  Robert E. Lee

  Drinking, Scotch Whisky, Alcohol

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• But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

  Truman Capote

  Drinking, Alcohol, Drug

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.273, Vintage

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• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Drinking

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• The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Bottles, Whiskey

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• One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Careers, Acting, Judgment

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• It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

  George Saintsbury

  Beauty, Drinking, Race

  George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”

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• Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If you are a criminal or a harlot, a blasphemer, a drunkard, a convict, or a dope fiend, God does not want you to go to Hell. People do not go to Hell simply because they are sinners. Rather they go because they will not repent of their sins! If you today will confess your sins to God, and in your poor, helpless heart, will, as far as you know how, turn away from your sin, God will have mercy and will forgive and save.

  John R. Rice

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.109, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Ignorance, Stupid People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

  Ann Landers

  Drinking, Swimming, Beer

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