Quit Drinking Quotes

• Well from a personal perspective, quitting drinking is a decision I felt good about.

  George W. Bush

  Drinking, Perspective, Decision

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

  Billy Crystal

  Grateful, Drinking, Years

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”

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• I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Drinking, Healing, Thinking

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• I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.

  David Feherty

  Drinking, Games, Drunk

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• After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my car.

  Robin Williams

  Drinking, Car, Quitting

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• When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

  Caroline Knapp

  Inspirational, Drinking, Sobriety

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.263, Dial Press

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• I think when you're drinking you don't have the clarity to think about things. It's not easy to talk about obviously but I think quitting drinking was one of the most important decisions I've ever made for myself. It's not easy, especially when I'm touring and everyone is partying and I'm backstage playing Scrabble or drawing in my notebook because I'm a total nerd now.

  Marissa Nadler

  Notebook, Party, Drinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Did you ever drink so much of a certain type of alcohol that you get so sick that you can never drink the same kind again ? I've decided that's how I'm going to quit drinking. One-at-a-time.

  Doug Stanhope

  Drinking, Sick, Alcohol

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• They asked me why I don't quit drinking, I told 'em I'm not a quitter.

  The Weeknd

  Drinking, Ems, Quitting

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2012

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• I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

  James Ellroy

  Drinking, Later In Life, House

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.

  Lars Frederiksen

  Drinking, Blood, Sick

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• I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

  Artie Lange

  Drinking, Yankees, Years

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• Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Airplane, Glue, Looks

  "Fictional character: Steve McCroskey". "Airplane!", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• I can't say the connection is one I've made consciously, but quitting drinking allowed me to be less selfish. My wife would definitely say that one of the major benefits of me quitting drinking is that I have more time and focus for other people.

  Andy Daly

  Selfish, Drinking, Wife

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.

  Garrison Keillor

  Drinking, Years, Two

  Garrison Keillor (2011). “Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Hate, Drinking

  "Something to Take the Edge Off", 2000.

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• I think it just has to do with getting older and getting better at what it was I was doing, and that I could take something small and kind of take my time with it. I think actually what that has to do with is I quit drinking. Before that I told myself I could only drink if I was - if I was writing, I had to be drinking. So I was on a timer, because eventually you get too drunk to write.

  David Sedaris

  Drinking, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, I’d probably jump off a bridge.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Drinking, Bridges, Life Sucks

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.

  Ryan Adams

  Drinking, Night, Quitting

  Interview with Melissa Maertz, Spin Magaine, Vol. 22, No. 2, February 2006.

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• If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking.

  Tom Ford

  Drinking, Needs, London

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

  Toby Keith

  Girl, Fun, Drinking

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• The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

  Jay McInerney

  Drinking, Smoking, Quitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With this job, always traveling on the plane and everything, I thought it would be really difficult to quit drinking on my own because you're always in situations where it's acceptable to have drinks. So I decided right after a show that I was going to go into treatment. I Googled a bunch of places, and I found this place that I went to in Cape Town, South Africa, called Stepping Stones. I stayed there for a month. It was really difficult-lots of talking and crying.

  Lara Stone

  Drinking, Quitting, Cry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.

  Melissa Bank

  Girl, Growing Up, Couple

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.69, Penguin

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