Addiction Quotes - Page 12

• While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction - I don't see this being the case for adolescents.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Sex, Stress, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Years, Voice, Smoking

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, People, Our Society

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• I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and beat these addictions but he didn't. He sort of designed his own, you know, sort of rehabilitation at home. And anybody could do what he did. When he felt like having a cigarette after he ate, he would get up and walk. At cocktail hour when he used to have a drink and watch the news, he stopped watching the news. He couldn't. He couldn't watch the news and not have a drink and a cigarette. He would walk.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Home, Thinking, Rehabilitation

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.

  Michael Botticelli

  Thinking, People, Dollars

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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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• You can Google everyone now, you don't have to peek through a window or wait till she leaves her house. You can look at her Instagram, she's takes selfies, posting images of her body parts for everyone to see. She seeks followers and craves attention to define her self worth. It's a dead end addiction to fame.

  Pamela Anderson

  Self Worth, House, Waiting

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Spending is an addiction.

  Jim DeMint

  Spending

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• With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.

  Jay Inslee

  Summer, Thinking, Wind

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Team, Encounters, Truth Is

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• Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

  David Sheff

  Recovery, Secret, Firsts

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• The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.

  Roy Nelson

  Use, Problem

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• What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Reading, Remember, Love To Read

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.

  James Blunt

  Hero, Ebay, Funeral

  "He Writes the Songs You Love". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2007.

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• When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Education, Religious, Racism

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• When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

  Abel Ferrara

  Sex, Gambling, Talking

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

  Froma Harrop

  Football, Two, Gambling

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• Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Crazy, Thinking

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.19, New Society Publishers

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• Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth.
  It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our
  natural wisdom.

  Stephen Levine

  Block, Always Being Right, Kind

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.76, Anchor

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• Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing.

  George Carlin

  Country, Shopping, Buying

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