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Life's Pleasures Quote by Kim Kardashian

"I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!"

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Kim Kardashian’s warning lands like a PSA filtered through the machinery of celebrity: intimate, scolding, and brand-safe all at once. The intent is overtly corrective - “learn from the mistakes of others” frames her as a witness to consequences, someone who’s seen enough fallout (personal, social, tabloid, legal) to justify issuing guidance. It’s also a subtle repositioning: she’s not confessing to a mistake so much as deputizing it into a lesson, turning the messy reality people associate with fame into a public-service credential.

The phrasing does a careful two-step. “Please drink responsibly” nods to adult autonomy and a nightlife culture her audience recognizes; it doesn’t moralize drinking itself. Then the line hardens into an absolute: “never acceptable to drink and drive.” That shift matters. It separates lifestyle from liability, pleasure from harm, and keeps her message from sounding like abstinence preaching. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of drawing a bright red line in a world of gray.

Context is doing heavy lifting. Kardashian’s platform reaches people who won’t read a Department of Transportation pamphlet. Her influence is the medium and the message: when a celebrity known for glamor and excess tells you to take limits seriously, it borrows credibility from contrast. The subtext is reputational, too. Public figures are expected to model “responsibility,” especially in an era where one viral incident can define a narrative. This is harm reduction and image maintenance aligning neatly, which is exactly why it works.

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TopicLearning from Mistakes
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Kardashian, Kim. (2026, January 18). I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-urge-people-to-learn-from-the-mistakes-of-4563/

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Kardashian, Kim. "I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!" FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-urge-people-to-learn-from-the-mistakes-of-4563/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!" FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-urge-people-to-learn-from-the-mistakes-of-4563/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian (born October 21, 1980) is a Celebrity from USA.

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