As a young founder in high-stress situations, I often used alcohol to escape facing things. I’ve struggled with this for a long time, and while I think I’ve gotten better over time, I believe that this is the last thing preventing me from actualizing my 100 percent conscious self.
Alcohol was this crutch for me, to be able to be confident or go do those things I was scared to do. Eventually, I was like ‘Oh, this isn’t serving me anymore.’
Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food – unless, of course, it’s a mallard.
I stopped drinking alcohol, which probably was the biggest change. I used to be a very big beer drinker. Being from England, that’s a very common thing.
Attention to diet, exercise, avoiding or at least limiting alcohol, ending smoking, protecting our skin from the sun and avoiding stress are important to live healthier lives, with lower cancer risk.
I don’t believe in alcohol. It’s a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I’m not a gambling man.
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.
My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, ‘Were you an alcoholic?’ I suppose the short answer is ‘Yes.’
It’s absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn’t do anybody any good in the long run. It’s a dangerous drug.
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won’t be around drugs and alcohol at all.
According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
People sometimes forget that alcohol is a chemical. It can change how you think. It was making me into a glass-half-empty person.
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.
Here’s the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.
Some of the elements of sleep hygiene are basically the same as good health practices. Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol all negatively impact sleep, the more so the closer they’re consumed to bedtime.
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food – unless, of course, it’s a mallard.
You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet – completely sober.
In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
Some parents let their kids sleep at other people’s houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A’s and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
I spent a whole year in ‘Spamalot’ and didn’t have one drop of alcohol.
In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.
I have no problem in confessing that I drink alcohol but I always take it in a very limited manner.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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.
The only time I tried alcohol my hangover lasted for days, and I decided never again.
I don’t smoke and I don’t drink alcohol.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
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.
I don’t drink at lunchtime because I’m very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
I think, at a certain point, it’s better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated.
I never drink alcohol.
Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life’s problems.
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
When we drink a cup of coffee or spoon heated chicken noodle soup or chili out of a Styrofoam cup, we are also taking in small doses of chemicals that leach from the container. Heat activates this transfer, as does oil, acids and alcohol.
I cut out carbs like rice and pasta and bread and potatoes and all forms of cakes, chocolate and sweets. But it would be really boring if I cut out alcohol.
I’ve always thought in the back of my mind I could do something really special with my life and I was just on a real path to not achieving that, and I blame that on alcohol.
I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.
As long as I don’t overindulge, it’s OK for me to eat burgers and ice cream occasionally. As for alcohol? I’ve never tried it.
I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I’m 300% sure that I just had a sip and I can drive. It doesn’t matter.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
I just got caught up in the alcohol, women and all that sort of stuff.
The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was… good.
