Drinking Alcohol Quotes - Page 8

• Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

  Oksana Baiul

  Drinking, Night, Alcohol

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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  The true meaning of the precepts is that one should refrain not only from drinking alcohol but also from getting drunk on nirvana.

  Bassui Tokusho

  Buddhist, Drinking, Drunk

  "Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui".

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• I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

  George Montgomery

  Drinking, Years, Alcohol

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• I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.

  Charlie Munger

  Teacher, Drinking, School

  Charlie Munger's comments on economic matters at the 2005 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 30, 2005.

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• Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

  Graeme Simsion

  Drinking, Alcohol, Risk

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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