I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'
But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.
To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.
It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.
We are what we think.
The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
MySpace is an addiction.
I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
I dwell in possibility.
Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, ‘It’s not just that it’s bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn’t even really give you a good buzz?'
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
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