Drinking Quotes - Page 30

• I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Smoking, Students, Shame

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Thinking, Quality, Negative

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could kill them is violence. Guns, drinking and driving, these are the real dangers in our society.

  William H. Macy

  Girl, Sex, Real

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Wine, Relevant

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

  Barry Hannah

  Feel Good, Stuff, Misery

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

  Barry Hannah

  Hate, Alcohol, Drug

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.

  Dacia Maraini

  Coffee, Writing, Character

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Love, Life, Death

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• [Marco] Rubio, I've never seen a young guy sweat that much. I've never seen - he's drinking water, water, water, I never saw anything like this with him and the water.

  Donald Trump

  Sweat, Water, Guy

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I haven't given up drinking, just drinking a little less and going to the gym. I think when you get into your thirties you have to start. I'm not 18 anymore so you can't just be partying every day, you've got to have some kind of balance, so I try and go to the gym now once a year, that keeps me going!

  Brian McFadden

  Party, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.mtv.com.au

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• They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

  Jill Douglas

  Giving Up, Levels, Awful

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had played the children in the first movie, explaining how it had ruined their lives, so we would catch up with Emily Browning drinking heavily in the back of a burlesque bar, and maybe Liam Aiken would be living underneath a bridge, and then instead of the twins who played Sunny, we would just try to find the oldest woman in the world, and get an interview with her sitting in a trailer park.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Bridges, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.

  Barry Levinson

  Football, Jobs, Growing Up

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• You have the upmost amount of energy because you're not just having a cocktail at the end of the night. You're actually not drinking alcohol and you're keeping your body really clean and it's an amazing feeling to be getting out all the toxins.

  Colin Farrell

  Night, Alcohol, Feelings

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Alcohol, Drug, Protocol

  "Adlai Stevenson". Book by Herbert J. Muller, p. 274, 1967.

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• How do you look when I'm sober?

  Ring Lardner, Jr.

  Looks, Sober

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• There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

  Samuel Butler

  Asylums, Teetotalers, Should

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• I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

  Richard Burton

  Beer, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He changed more times than a baby in a beer-drinking contest.

  Scott Adams

  Baby, Beer, Alcohol

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.451, Penguin

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• What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

  Lord Byron

  Food, Beer, Thinking

  "The Deformed Transformed". Book by Lord Byron, 1824.

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• When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

  Richard Burton

  Funny, Humorous, Wine

  "Bottled Wisdom: Over 1,000 Spirited Quotations & Anecdotes" by Mark Pollman, Wildstone Media, (p. 146), January 1, 1998.

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• I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

  Mat Hoffman

  Mean, Who I Am, Addiction

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• The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Husband, Saving, Today

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• Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

  Menander

  Sea, Land, Beast

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