Addiction Quotes - Page 39

• In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

  Christopher McDougall

  Children, War, Teenager

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.14, Profile Books

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• I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

  Bertice Berry

  Home, Land, Brave

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• Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.

  Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

  Two, Would Be, Aspirin

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• No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Alcohol, Drug

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• Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

  Elton John

  Love, Passion, Monkeys

  Song: Sleeping With The Past, Album: Sleeping With The Past, 1989

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• This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our age. And nowhere is this addiction more apparent than in our addiction to money.

  Russell Peters

  Age, Culture, Materialism

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• The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.

  Robert Greenwald

  Baby, Fate, Years

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

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• But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.

  Joel Osteen

  God, Husband, Father

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• It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.

  Gloria Reuben

  Mother, Running, Order

  "A Night in New York" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2010.

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• Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

  Richie Sambora

  Grief, Thinking, Trying

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• One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

  Lorna Luft

  Traits

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• I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Adrenaline

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• Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour I feel like saying to them: "You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?" But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

  Will Self

  Children, People, Behaviour

  "Will Self: The trouble with my blood" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

  Terence McKenna

  Opposites, Drug, Perception

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• Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

  Kevin Rooney

  Ties, Mexican, Waiting

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• Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

  Pierre Dukan

  Thinking, America, Sugar

  "The Saturday interview: Dukan diet creator Pierre Dukan". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

  David Shi

  Simple, Inner Peace, Consumerism

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• Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

  Ivan Illich

  Turkeys, Kicking It, Numbers

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• Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed

  Carey Mulligan

  Sex, Should, Subjects

  Source: collider.com

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• If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

  Charles Adams

  Book, Writing, Different

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• Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

  Roy Baumeister

  Educational, Pregnancy, School

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• At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.

  Bob Menendez

  Cutting, Trying, President

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• Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Smart, Opportunity, Life Wisdom

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• I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Sports, Choices

  Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

  Gina Carano

  Mma, Next Level, Levels

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