Addiction Quotes - Page 11

• I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career.

  Meg Ryan

  Character, Dark, Careers

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• When you're first in love with somebody, and it's not true love, it's borderline obsession, it's kind of like an addiction. You switch into this weird, weird part of your mind when you just can't live without that person. And you want to envelop them. You want them flowing through your veins.

  Juno Temple

  Mind, Kind, Obsession

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

  Thomas Fuller

  Passion, Slavery, Self Discipline

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• A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.

  Mary Blakely

  Suicide, Teacher, Children

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• Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Sex, Liquor, Appetite

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• I was a functional addict.

  James Taylor

  Addict

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• I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Trying, Subculture, Addict

  "Talk time: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Suffering, Culture

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• Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

  Perri Peltz

  Brain, Moral, Failing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Sex, Adults, Substance

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Stella Adler

  Use, Body, Junkie

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• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.

  David Berman

  Technology, Skills, Style

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• Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.

  Donald Hall

  Hurt, Important, Adjectives

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• Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Self, Loathing

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

  Julie Bishop

  Giving Up, Government, Spending

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Powerful, Men, Toys

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• The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.

  John Waters

  Easter, America, Bunnies

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• I went public with the alcoholism, very early on... the early '70s. Mercedes McCambridge, the actress, I think was the first recognizable person that went before Congress and talked about it, and I thought that was a good idea, to take some of the stigma away from it and say "Normal, average people can fall prey to it." So it's been public for me. I did a movie about an alcoholic. And today, you're nobody unless you've been to rehab. It seems like everybody has some kind of an addiction.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• Addiction has had such an impact on my life and the people I love, and there really is not a lot about it that is funny. So the last thing I wanted was to give the impression that it’s all fun and games, and isn’t it funny what she gets away with.

  Edie Falco

  Fun, Impact, Games

  "A Conversation With Edie Falco". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them

  George Andrews

  Hippie, Illumination, Drug

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• Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'

  Trey Anastasio

  Spiritual, Heart, Boys

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• The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

  Phillip Adams

  Book, Library, Fierce

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