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• The unfortunate thing is that I live next door to the pub they all drink in. So if I leave my light on and they know I'm in, they all descend on me. I know it's nice, but it's a bit of a bummer if you're trying to watch EastEnders.

  Sean Pertwee

  Nice, Light, Doors

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• If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Soul, Mind, Tea

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• As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing.... Just drink it black, the way God does

  Klay Thompson

  Coffee, Chocolate, Black

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• The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mother, Wisdom, Children

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1963). “Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two”, Anchor

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• Before you eat food or drink water, look at what you're about to eat or drink and feel love and gratitude. Make sure your conversations are positive when you are sitting down to a meal.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Water

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out.

  Karen McDougal

  Stars, Wine, Play

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• Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Coffee, Night, Giving

  "Libya: International response gathers pace after Gaddafi counterattacks" by Ian Black, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of new technologies or new sources of renewable, safe energy. It is about how we all behave every day of our lives, what we eat, what we drink, what we recycle, re-use, repair, how we produce and how we consume

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Technology, Growth, Environmental

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• Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

  Gillian Flynn

  Giving, Perspective

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.50, Broadway Books

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• The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources-preserving quality with quantity - is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Destiny, Air

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973".

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• The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Chocolate, Church, Each Day

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.119, Vintage

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• Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

  Emile Zola

  Soul, Sacred, Coarse

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• To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

  Jacques Barzun

  Football, Distance, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

  Adam Arkin

  People, Want, Pleasure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

  George Orwell

  Men, May, Failing

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

  Sophia Loren

  Wine, Italian, Pasta

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• There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

  George Santayana

  Men, Reconcile, Food And Drink

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.27, Рипол Классик

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• Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
  None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

  Bob Dylan

  Wine, Earth, Lines

  Song: All Along The Watchtower, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

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• Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

  Carson McCullers

  Morning, Sunday, Musical

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

  David Whyte

  Bird, Waiting, Cooking

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.51, Penguin

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• We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

  Patti Smith

  Needs, Cosmology, Sacraments

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• If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Teacher, Jobs, Stars

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• It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.

  Noel Gallagher

  Christmas, London, Firsts

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• She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Two, Feet

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.36, Random House

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• Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

  Avicenna

  Wine, Darkness, Fool

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