Ha-Joon Chang Quotes

The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.

I never had a drink at all till I was 38. I'm just not a drinker. I go days without drinking.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am not much of a drinker.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

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.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.

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.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

I don't really like to drink. I don't like the way alcohol feels or tastes. On occasion I'll do it as a social thing, just to kind of go, 'Hey! I did something with you guys!'

I will drink alcohol socially. That's really on the weekends.

My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it's genetic luck or malfunction that I've ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can't drink.

I used to drink straight Hennessy, but I started drinking wine and champagne. It's easier to tour like that.

I don't get hangovers - it's some kind of superhuman ability.

I know, everybody thinks that all Aussies love beer. I guess most of them do, but not me.

I thought, 'I don't really drink that much.' But when you stop completely it is a shocker. You realise that a glass here, going to a function there, they all tot up.

I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

When people ask me, 'Why don't you drink?' I usually smile and say 'Because I'm not good at it.'

I'm not no 'drink wine every day' kind of dude.