Rick Perry Quotes

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?

Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

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.

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

The fact that I'm sober isn't really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.

I'm in the pink of health except for the weight I put on because I'm now a stressful producer. But being the daughter of an alcoholic makes you four times more susceptible to becoming one.