Addict Quotes - Page 6

• 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 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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• I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

  Annalena McAfee

  Computer, Print, Hooked

  "Annalena McAfee: 'I see myself as a recovering journalist'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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• I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

  J. J. Abrams

  Recovery, Thinking, Admitting

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• I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear.

  Chris Hardwick

  Girlfriend, Long, Kind

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• The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

  Walter Wink

  Belief, Obstacles, Excuse

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• Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour I feel like saying to them: "You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?" But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

  Will Self

  Children, People, Addiction

  "Will Self: The trouble with my blood" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Son, House, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.

  Clifford Stoll

  Dream, Children, Book

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• The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.

  Julia Hill

  Reality, Comfort

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• An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

  Stella Adler

  Addiction, Use, Body

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• There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a heroin addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Cop, Heroin, Let Me

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

  Sarah Silverman

  Drama, Thinking, Comedian

  Source: collider.com

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• My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.

  Melissa Febos

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Yes, creative people are more prone to addiction or addictive behavior. But, equally as prone is your mailman, your mother, your brother, your friend, the guy who does your banking. It's everywhere. The thing that happens in the press sometimes is Whitney Houston. She was just an addict. Just like your uncle Steve.

  Kristen Johnston

  Mother, Brother, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.

  Thomas Szasz

  Age, Pork, Heroin

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.

  Blake Lively

  Play, Drug, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I didn't make a deal with God, because you can't make a deal with God. He put me here to talk to kids and to talk to drunks and help addicts. He gave me this "job" which makes it a lot easier to get through to people.

  Danny Trejo

  Jobs, Kids, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Love Is, Opposites

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• ...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.

  Sara Davidson

  Struggle, Artist, Venice

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• All patients reported a loss of craving for drugs while taking large doses of Vitamin C, during detoxification. Of the first 30 carefully monitored heroin addicts, 30 successfully withdrew from their addiction with no more than minor discomfort. None of the 30 were reported to have relapsed...Similar results have been reported by other doctors...:Archie Kalokerinos.

  Irwin Stone

  Loss, Dark, Doctors

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• I’m a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

  Lisa Ling

  Ping Pong, Bigs, Ping

  "Lisa Ling ‘Our America’: Journalist Talks Pregnancy, Gets Candid For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Discovery, Careers

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• If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

  Vandana Shiva

  Jobs, Ecosystems, Growth Hormones

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It doesn't learn wisely. Any kind of measure of natural wisdom would be: you make a mistake, you correct it the next time around. But a drug addict feels terrible... and then says: 'I want more'. Unfortunately we have an economic model that thinks like a crack addict.

  Naomi Klein

  Mistake, Thinking, Economic Models

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