 By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. Author: Aeschylus
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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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| Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Author: Carrie Fisher
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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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| Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. Author: Catherine Helen Spence
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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 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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| My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking! Author: Christopher Eccleston
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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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| Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea? Author: Condoleezza Rice
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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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| 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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| 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 H. Hill
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. Author: Desi Arnaz
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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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| 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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| If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. Author: Edward Koch
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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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| 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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| Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it. Author: Esther 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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| 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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| At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water. Author: Evan Sayet
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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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| I quite 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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| I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. Author: George Best
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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 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'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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| 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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| 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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| Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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| I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave. Author: Graham Coxon
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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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| 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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| When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Author: Henny Youngman
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| China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers. Author: Howard Schultz
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| What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen. Author: Iggy Pop
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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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| Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking. Author: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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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| 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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| It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. Author: John Selden
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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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| I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer. Author: Johnny Damon
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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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| 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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| Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage. Author: Jose Bergaman
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| When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking. Author: Joseph Barbera
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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: Kahlil Gibran
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| I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow. Author: Kelly McGillis
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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 admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow. Author: Kinky Friedman
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| I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow. Author: Kinky Friedman
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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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| 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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| A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. Author: Lord Byron
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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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| I tried to give up drugs by drinking. Author: Lou Reed
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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 Roybal-Allard
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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 Roybal-Allard
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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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| When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. Author: Marguerite Duras
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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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| It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. Author: Mark Hoppus
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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 de Sade
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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'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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