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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.
Author:
Robbie Williams
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There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
Author:
Esther Williams
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
Author:
Tom Waits
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Author:
Voltaire
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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Author:
Raoul Vaneigem
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I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.
Author:
George Thorogood
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I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.
Author:
Nicholas Stern
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Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.
Author:
Willie Stargell
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As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.
Author:
Debbie Stabenow
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Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Author:
Catherine Spence
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It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
Author:
John Selden
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Author:
Walter Scott
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At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.
Author:
Evan Sayet
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Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Author:
Jean Savarin
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"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Author:
Babe Ruth
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But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.
Author:
Sonny Rollins
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My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
Author:
Bill Rodgers
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All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.
Author:
Bryan Robson
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The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.
Author:
Ann Robinson
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Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?
Author:
Condoleezza Rice
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
Author:
Oliver Reed
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
Author:
Oliver Reed
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I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
Author:
Lou Reed
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Author:
Thomas Quincey
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I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.
Author:
Natalie Portman
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The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.
Author:
William Petersen
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Author:
Samuel Pepys
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Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
Author:
Jack Osbourne
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
Author:
Jack Osbourne
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I've been drinking and using since I was 13.
Author:
Jack Osbourne
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It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.
Author:
Jerry Orbach
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Author:
Ed O'Neill
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
Author:
Ed O'Neill
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I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then.
Author:
Ken Norton
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.
Author:
Franco Nero
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My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.
Author:
Mike Myers
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I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.
Author:
Megan Mullally
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I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
Author:
Emily Mortimer
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It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.
Author:
Rick Moranis
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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.
Author:
George Montgomery
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I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
Author:
Rebecca Miller
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We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road.
Author:
Johnny Mercer
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I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.
Author:
Kelly McGillis
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I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.
Author:
Bruce McCulloch
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Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
Author:
Lee Marvin
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
Author:
Walter Map
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The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
Author:
William Macy
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I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
Author:
Jeanette MacDonald
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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
Author:
Bjorn Lomborg
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My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
Author:
Bjorn Lomborg
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When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
Author:
Alex Lifeson
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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
Author:
Gotthold Lessing
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A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Author:
Artie Lange
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I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking.
Author:
Artie Lange
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The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.
Author:
Artie Lange
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
Author:
Edward Koch
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
Author:
Calvin Klein
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
Author:
Laura Kightlinger
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
Author:
Billy Joel
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Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
Author:
Thomas Jarvis
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
Author:
Samuel Jackson
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I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
Author:
Freddie Hubbard
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It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
Author:
Mark Hoppus
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Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.
Author:
Gregory Hines
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Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
Author:
Daniel Hill
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
Author:
Dan Hicks
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Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.
Author:
Marilu Henner
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I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.
Author:
Sammy Hagar
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The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
Author:
Terry Goodkind
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Author:
Barry Goldwater
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I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.
Author:
Trisha Goddard
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I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
Author:
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
Author:
Maurice Gibb
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I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.
Author:
Paul Gascoigne
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I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.
Author:
Kinky Friedman
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I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
Author:
Kinky Friedman
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The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.
Author:
Glenn Frey
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Author:
Clement Freud
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Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
Author:
Morgan Freeman
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My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.
Author:
Dennis Franz
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Author:
Carrie Fisher
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
Author:
W. Fields
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When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.
Author:
Craig Ferguson
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
Author:
Joe Eszterhas
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I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.
Author:
Nora Dunn
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Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
Author:
Byron Dorgan
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I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.
Author:
Mike Ditka
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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
Author:
Diogenes
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Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.
Author:
Charles Dibdin
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I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.
Author:
Rodney Dangerfield
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I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer.
Author:
Johnny Damon
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I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
Author:
Macaulay Culkin
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I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.
Author:
Warren Cuccurullo
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I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.
Author:
Graham Coxon
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We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.
Author:
Jon Corzine
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Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.
Author:
Andrea Corr
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I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.
Author:
Pete Coors
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If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.
Author:
Pete Coors
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The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.
Author:
Pete Coors
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Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
Author:
Tommy Cooper
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Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
Author:
Alice Cooper
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
Author:
George Clooney
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I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!
Author:
George Clooney
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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
Author:
Vince Clarke
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Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
Author:
John Clare
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.
Author:
Thomas Church
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I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.
Author:
Thomas Church
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Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
Author:
Billy Carter
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I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Author:
Johnny Carson
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It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.
Author:
Gisele Bundchen
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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Author:
Jimmy Breslin
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By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
Author:
Jo Brand
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I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
Author:
John Bonham
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Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Author:
Sherwood Boehlert
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I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
Author:
George Best
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Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Author:
Jeffrey Bernard
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Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
Author:
Jose Bergaman
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
Author:
Xavier Becerra
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Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals.
Author:
Pierre Beaumarchais
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Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
Author:
Pierre Beaumarchais
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When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
Author:
Joseph Barbera
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I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.
Author:
Christine Baranski
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
Author:
David Bailey
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Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
Author:
Desi Arnaz
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But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.
Author:
Rick Allen
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With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.
Author:
Lucille Allard
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Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
Author:
Lucille Allard
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Author:
Alcaeus
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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Author:
Aeschylus
