Addiction Quotes - Page 29

• It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Gun, Mouths, Taste

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• I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like, 'How did that happen?' I don't even remember buying them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume.

  Robert Pattinson

  Cinnamon, Coke, Buying

  "Exclusive Twilight Interview: Rob, Kellan, and Jackson". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2009.

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• Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it's a universal disease.

  River Phoenix

  People, Scumbags, Disease

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Kids, Want

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• I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, People, Next

  "Smashing Pumpkins". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.

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• I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

  Carnie Wilson

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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• Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

  Dave Navarro

  Heart, New Music, Jane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are addicted to being the way we are

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Being Sad, Way

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• That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

  Eric Avery

  Regret, Relief, Ends

  Eric Avery @ericavery, twitter.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

  James Buchan

  Oil, Different, Would Be

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• I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

  Janice Dickinson

  Horrible, Former

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

  Jeanne Moreau

  People, Ifs, Addict

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.

  Keith Richards

  Rhythm Of Life, Years, Two

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• I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Animal, Doctors, Nuts

  Evalyn Walsh McLean, Boyden Sparkes (2000). “Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean”, Turner Publishing Company

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• [On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their dreadful ever-changing shapes.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Pain, Shapes, Awful

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• Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.

  Elton John

  Home, Years, Drug

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Drug, Understanding

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• Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything

  Vladimir Putin

  Drug, Cigarette, Worst

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance

  Dale Carnegie

  Overcoming Addiction, Risk, Chance

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem; it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mean, Firsts, Sun

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.

  Simon Sinek

  Healthy, Culture, Social

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• It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

  Donella Meadows

  Impact, Space, People

  Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.165, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

  Elton John

  Clothes, Drug, Drug Addiction

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2014.

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• I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

  Lawrence Block

  Hurt, Pain, Liars

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• I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Procrastination, Thinking

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

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