Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice."
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash."
Dean Martin
Singer
"When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host."
Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives."
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"A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory."
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"Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!"
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"Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt."
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"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."
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"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
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"Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance."
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"It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off."
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"Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop."
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"Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust."
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"I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal."
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"Civilization begins with distillation"
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"Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God."
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"One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything."
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"It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol."
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"You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get [female recipients] Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job."
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"The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving."
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"I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink."
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"I like to have a martini/Two at the very most."
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"There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'"
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"I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."
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