Alcoholism Quotes - Page 7

• I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Country, Wine

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

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• The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted.

  Sanna Lenken

  People, Sick, Abuse

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Law, Practice

  Speech in the House of Lords, February 22, 1743.

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• It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

  James Thurber

  Home, Drawing, Alcohol

  1930 In the New Yorker, 2 Aug.

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• In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.

  Ewan McGregor

  Russia, People, Wandering Around

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back and gathering my strength. That time also included incredible cocaine abuse, a heart attack and my wife's recovery from both alcoholism and cocaine abuse.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Recovery, Years

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

  John Gay

  Love, Hate, Alcohol

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.55, OUP Oxford

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• There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Drunk, Doe, Magnificent

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• Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

  Jack London

  Alcohol, Normal, Truth Is

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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• Ed Balls is like a drunk trying to drink his way out of alcoholism.

  Liam Fox

  Drunk, Trying, Balls

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• I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that is more fun than alcoholism. I know it has its downside, but I'll tell you, there's no other party disease like alcohol.

  Dom Irrera

  Fun, Party, Goal

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• I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people - usually from those rare "normal" families that I longed for as a child and as an adult wonder if they even exist - didn't understand this and sort of looked down their noses at people suffering with addiction.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Children, Boys, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.

  Janet Malcolm

  Disappointment, Eye, Wrinkles

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• I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It had some painful stuff in it. When we showed it to focus groups, some of them actually said, "If I want to see a dysfunctional family, I'll stay home."

  Harold Ramis

  Home, Character, Addiction

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

  Jim Hamilton

  Christian, Prayer, Next Day

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Wine, Glasses

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• I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

  Moby

  Fall, People, Seductive

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

  Malachy McCourt

  Awful, Disease, Dread

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues.

  Otto Perez Molina

  Issues, Justice, Alcohol

  "We have to find new solutions to Latin America's drugs nightmare" by Otto Pérez Molina, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Catholic, St Patrick, My Family

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.This is not one of those memoirs.

  Kate Madison

  Recovery, Reflection, Addiction

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• One main problem with raising awareness of LGBT abuse is the denial. The term "domestic violence" is perceived as something akin to alcoholism, ("I don't sit on a park bench drinking") and people do not see that they are perpetrating or are a victim of DV because they have a set idea about what it is.

  Kim Kardashian

  Drinking, Ideas, People

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• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Alcohol, Doe

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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