Addict Quotes - Page 8

• Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

  Jeanne Moreau

  People, Addiction, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

  Cornelia Funke

  Father, Book, Library

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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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• I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

  Jeff Dunham

  Christian, Jobs, Believe

  "Comedian Defends 'Achmed the Dead Terrorist' Puppet Routine Against South African Ban" by Joshua Rhett Miller, www.foxnews.com. October 2, 2008.

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• Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

  Milton Friedman

  Matter, Anarchy, Prohibition

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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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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• I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears … I'm a gut pile addict … The pig didn't know I was there … it's my kick … I love shafting animals … it's rock 'n' roll power.

  Ted Nugent

  Winter, Animal, Rocks

  "Never a dull moment with the Nugent" by Dan Craft, www.pantagraph.com. August 2, 2007.

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• John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

  Cornel West

  Holiday, America, Our Society

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• I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Cat, Drug

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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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• I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

  Gillian Flynn

  Proud, Crime, I Can

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and fall in love. I saw my friends going through these things, I saw the world going through these things, and I needed to understand them. I needed to make sense of them. Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books, and it was books that showed me there is light at the end of the tunnel.

  Jackson Pearce

  Falling In Love, Book, Tunnels

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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 feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

  William S. Burroughs

  Addiction, Firsts, Would Be

  "Way out: a thematic reader". Book by Lois A. Michel (p. 121), 1968.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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