Addict Quotes - Page 5

• I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.

  Greg Evigan

  Reality, People, Challenges

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• Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Fans, Losing

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• I don't t drink coffee, but I'm a tea addict.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Coffee, Tea, Drink

  "Toks Olagundoye of 'The Neighbors': 23 Things You Don't Know". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000. I don't believe that all those people were escaping from "complexes" or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Escaping, Iran

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• Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Essentials, Raw Materials, Pakistan

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• In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.

  Dean Koontz

  Daughter, Queens, Real

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• I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

  Hugo Chavez

  Reading, Drug, I Can

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• At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.

  David Sheff

  Children, Husband, Wife

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.

  James Patterson

  People, Way, Helping

  James Patterson (2008). “Sundays at Tiffany's”, p.46, Random House

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• What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107)

  Sherman Alexie

  Pain, Dad, Differences

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• I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!

  Will Ferrell

  Sex, Real, Medicine

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• If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

  Ian Botham

  Country, Children, Alcohol

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• I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

  Margaret Drabble

  Trying, Needs, Print

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• You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Drug

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Men, Energy

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were brilliant enough to make it happen. But then what? Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they'll never get again. In his suicide note, Cobain asked himself, "Why don't you just enjoy it?" and then answered, "I don't know!" It's amazing how much of a mindfuck success can be.

  Jay-Z

  Suicide, Drug, Feelings

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.117, Random House Group

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• There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

  Sherman Alexie

  Pain, Addiction, Going Away

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• My my Laura Goodman. I must say that is a charming name for a charming young lady." "Eric's old." I broke in. "Really really old." "Er— really?" Laura asked. "Gosh you don't look even out of your thirties." "Tons of face-lifts. He's a surgical addict. I'm trying to get him help." I added defensively when they both gave me strange looks.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Names, Trying, Eric

  MaryJanice Davidson (2005). “Undead and Unappreciated: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.155, Penguin

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• Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Inspiring, Years, Ideas

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• I think drug addicts have brains wired like adventurers and they didn't get the opportunity to find it. You know, the people I get to work with - not all of them are well-adjusted. Some of them are driven by heavy demons.

  Jimmy Chin

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "An Interview with Richard Branson, Jimmy Chin, and Ben Stookesberry". Interview With Paul Solotaroff, www.mensjournal.com.

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• This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Book, Reading

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?

  Jeet Thayil

  Cutting, Mind, Saint

  "Narcopolis". Book by Jeet Thayil, 2012.

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• I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

  Sara Gran

  Nice, Home, House

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• Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the mindful person, is more developed than the typical truck driver or waitress or heroin addict. This is a red flag, another problem built into the concept of spirituality. The truth is that every person you meet is in some way more developed than you are, and that the multiple modes of development that a human being can pursue require the whole of humanity to pursue. We're in this together. Enlightenment is a collective effort.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Spiritual, Effort, Humanity

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.

  Daryl Hannah

  Garden, Vegetables, Trying

  "GREEN / Daryl Hannah Speaks Out" by Gregory Dicum, www.sfgate.com. May 3, 2006.

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