Addict Quotes - Page 8

• Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.

  Philip Yancey

  Sex, Alcohol, Way

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• Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.

  Liz Brixius

  Selfish, Addiction, Drug

  Source: deadline.com

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• Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drug, Holmes, Amiable

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• Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The end result is that addicts still get their opioids without much trouble, while genuine patients often can't find treatment. Those who do must typically be tracked in a database and must schedule frequent, expensive doctor visits for surveillance like urine testing.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Pain, War, Doctors

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• So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Drug, Puppy

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• I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

  Russell Brand

  Drug, Consciousness, Agree

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• From 16 to 21 when I was self sufficient and working in factories. I packed batteries, boxes, and make-up with heroin addicts. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet.

  Jay Kay

  Self, Two, Feet

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like.

  George Clooney

  Running, Father, Play

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• I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the bishops are supportive of it because they see people's lives being changed. They see the difference. I see people who've been in prison, whose lives have been messed up, who've been alcoholics, who've been drug addicts, set free and contributing to society.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Spiritual, Country, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• One thing about hanging out with a bunch of clean drug addicts, everyone is just super similar to you. So that has been awesome. I've made a lot of friends who are coming from an extremely similar place, even if they seem externally very different. I know I am an outsider in a number of ways, but I don't feel weird.

  Mike Doughty

  Drug, Different, Outsiders

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.

  Jess Walter

  Way, Treatment, Harder

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Spiritual, Long, Addiction

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• Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Pain, Believe, Boredom

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• Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

  David Malpass

  Littles, Moral, Politician

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• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Passion, Exercise

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

  David Mamet

  Grief, Loss, Odds

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• The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.

  Astra Taylor

  Data Collection, Needs, Gadgets

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

  T.C. Boyle

  Alcohol, Drug, Narcissistic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.

  David Foster Wallace

  Country, Emotional, Drug

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• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food. So I wanted to create a sitcom and have some really quirky characters, because most of the stuff they make now is just so marginalized. How interesting is a white guy who's 28 years old and lives in New York? What story have we not seen about a character like that? Just as a writer, it's so much easier to come up with comedy when you have a really oppressed Indian boy. Or a mother who is an addict but still has to take care of her kids.

  Felicia Day

  Mother, Character, Kids

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, tv.avclub.com. November 6, 2008.

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• We did decide that every addict in this film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, would be someone who started out with a prescription for an opioid from a doctor. The story that hadn't been told is that the vast majority - somewhere around 80 percent - of current heroin users began with an addiction to prescription opioids. So as much as people might want to look at this and say, 'Oh this is really a heroin problem,' yes, it is a heroin problem, and no one is saying differently, but it starts more often than not with a prescription.

  Perri Peltz

  People, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I am a self-proclaimed "fitness addict," so I am one of those people who actually really, really enjoys working out.

  Jennifer Ashton

  Self, People, Work Out

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• I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

  Dax Shepard

  Thinking, Exes

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• What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

  Steve Earle

  Opposites, Drug, Realizing

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

  Glennon Melton

  People, Addiction, Needs

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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