Addiction Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

  Steven Seagal

  Thinking, Uncontrollable Urge, Looks

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• Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

  Martin Amis

  Bed, Sometimes, Handy

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• I have an addiction to caffeine.

  Bill Ayers

  Caffeine

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• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Suicide, Loss, Law

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• Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Generosity, Joy

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, America, Kicking

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• Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.

  William H. Calvin

  Denial, Fuel, Fossils

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.31, William H. Calvin

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• There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.

  Michael Douglas

  Sex, Mean, Giving

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• I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

  Nora Volkow

  Sex, Impact, Gambling

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• Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

  David Robertson

  Teenage, Gambling, Evil

  "Study: Internet gambling stakes are high". www.cnn.com. March 17, 2002.

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• Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations of movies and plays, creating a certain environment in their home, and so on. Looking for happiness through sensations keeps you constantly searching for the next "fix" and for more varied sensations. Sensations become addictions, and nothing is ever enough.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Sex, Home, Creating

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• What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive.

  Robbin Crosby

  Sex, Careers, Drug

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• All glory comes from daring to begin.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Courage, Motivation, Business

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Appreciation, Kindness, Not Giving Up

  James Kern Feibleman (1969). “The Way of a Man: An Autobiography of James K. Feibleman”

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• A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

  Eric Hodgins

  Alcohol, Miracle, Drug

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• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

  Publilius Syrus

  Success, Recovery, New Beginnings

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• There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

  Francis Drake

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Yield

  Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134

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• It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

  John Kehoe

  Encouragement, Choices, Company

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• How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Encouragement, Forever, Important

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• We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.

  Stephen J. Pasierb

  Recovery, Results, Treatment

  "For Young People Addicted to Painkillers, the Path Less Taken — Why?" by Stephen J. Pasierb, A. Thomas McLellan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2013.

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• The further I get into recovery, the less I know.

  Phil Valentine

  Recovery, Knows

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• You are in recovery if you say you are.

  Phil Valentine

  Recovery, Ifs

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• I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me too, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction...

  Mark Boone Junior

  Mother, Years, Riding

  "SONS OF ANARCHY Interviews with Ryan Hurst, Theo Rossi, Kim Coates, and Mark Boone Junior". Interview with Charles Mihelich, collider.com. September 11, 2009.

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• Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Drug

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