Alcoholics Quotes - Page 7

• My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

  CM Punk

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• I wouldn't doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.

  Scott Stapp

  Doubt, Alcoholics Anonymous, Cia

  "Creed's Scott Stapp Reveals He's Homeless in Jarring New Video" by Daniel Kreps, www.rollingstone.com. November 26, 2014.

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• We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

  Charles Bukowski

  Mad, Sick, Bird

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.235, Canongate Books

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• By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Cat, Social Values, Views

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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

  Believe, Recovery, Self Confidence

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• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, Teens, Happened

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• American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...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, Dollars, Bottles

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• Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

  Robin Williams

  Dancer, Lap, Kind

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, December 6, 2009.

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• My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.

  Melissa Febos

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc.). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to change it, and how can we go about change?

  Stanton Peele

  Real, Addiction, People

  Stanton Peele. Ph.D., J.D. (2007). “7 Tools to Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love”, p.17, Harmony

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• Anxiety is the dizziness we experience when we recognize we hold the freedom and responsibility for our life choices. More than anyone, alcoholics have a very clear sense of this dizziness, especially when we were coming to realize our own powerlessness over alcohol and that we could act differently.

  Peg O'Connor

  Responsibility, Choices, Alcohol

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.

  Anne Lamott

  Drug, My Family

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Halloween, Wine, White

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• Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

  Marian Burros

  Drinking, Food, Cooking

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• I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.

  Lucy Lawless

  Mother, Children, Play

  "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

  Raymond Chandler

  Nice, Dating, Romance

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• . . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

  Tom McCall

  War, Jail, Long Ago

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• A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

  Dylan Thomas

  Drinking, Clothes, Alcohol

  Dylan Thomas (1967). “Selected letters”

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• Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Alcohol

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• If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.

  John Van de Kamp

  Humor, Past, Alcohol

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• I always wake up at the crack of ice.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Ice, Alcohol

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• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

  Jean Kerr

  Drinking, Numbers, People

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• I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

  Oscar Levant

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

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

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• There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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