Addict Quotes - Page 11

• In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

  Ethan Hawke

  New York, Car, Cracks

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• Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

  Tim Tharp

  Training, Whole

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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• In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.

  Elliott Chaze

  Moving, Shoes, Snow

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• Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Turkeys, Leader

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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• People that don’t know and hear about it, they start to think that all the people that do jiu-jitsu smokes pot, is a drug addict. Here I am fighting for something good, and the guy is fighting for something bad, in my point of view. I can’t agree with that, what he represents. Nothing to do with his jiu-jitsu, his school. If you want to do something like that, do it in private. Keep it to yourself.

  Royce Gracie

  School, Fighting, Thinking

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• I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

  Rick Reilly

  Baby, Moon, Sugar

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• Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic

  Michael Dokes

  Fighting, Boxing, Littles

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• Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!

  Eric Ludy

  Sex, Needs, Pulpit

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• The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it.

  Johann Hari

  Pain, War, Thinking

  "Johann Hari: 'I failed badly. When you harm people, you should shut up, go away and reflect on what happened'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2015.

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• An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

  David Sheff

  Lying, Drug, Looks

  David Sheff (2008). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Cracks, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

  Chris Prentiss

  Forever, Substance, Behavior

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.115, BookBaby

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• After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.

  Barbara Tuchman

  School, Home, Two

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• A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the other side of the tracks. Both of those excuses couldn't be farther from the truth. I come from a family that has a lot of love for one another and I was raised in a middle to upper class neighborhood.

  Jason Peter

  Home, Thinking, Order

  Interview with Husker Faithful, bleacherreport.com. August 14, 2008.

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• I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.

  Nathan Fillion

  Home, Awful, Firsts

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• Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.

  Taryn Manning

  Thinking, Opposites, Play

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Responsibility, Decision, Weight

  "Addicted to Addicts" by Theodore Dalrymple, www.city-journal.org. 1999.

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• We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

  Murray Kempton

  Dog, New York, Cutting

  Murray Kempton (1994). “Rebellions, perversities, and main events”, Crown

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• What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that..." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.

  Boy George

  Song, Drug, Musical

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Drug, Prison, Week

  "Maggie Gyllenhaal for 'Criminal'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 9, 2004.

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• I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

  John Waters

  Drug, Drug Addict

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.

  Andy Rooney

  Baby, Believe, Giving

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.105, PublicAffairs

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• I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

  John Waters

  Night, People, Drug

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• It's much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you're withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that's much easier than it is to come in and say, 'Hello.' Or, 'I love you'. When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn't as difficult.

  James Stewart

  Love You, Play, Judging

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Giving, Office

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.164

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