Drug Addict Quotes - Page 5

• My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Love Is, Opposites

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• People that don’t know and hear about it, they start to think that all the people that do jiu-jitsu smokes pot, is a drug addict. Here I am fighting for something good, and the guy is fighting for something bad, in my point of view. I can’t agree with that, what he represents. Nothing to do with his jiu-jitsu, his school. If you want to do something like that, do it in private. Keep it to yourself.

  Royce Gracie

  School, Fighting, Thinking

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• Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Dope, Addiction, Smoking

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• I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.

  Gary Oldman

  Jobs, Father, Loss

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• Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

  Colin Farrell

  Grateful, Years, Addiction

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• It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

  Eminem

  Song, Years, Addiction

  "Eminem admits he 'almost died' from drug overdose" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. May 4, 2009.

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• I'll get rid of the drug problem. The first drug dealer will be publicly executed in front of everybody and all of the sudden the rest of the drug dealers are going to go "Uh oh!" Watch how fast the drug problem disappears. If you use drugs, you're addicted and you steal something, you'll get sent off to the outback and to work camps and all of the sudden no drug addicts. See how simple that is? So simple.

  Gene Simmons

  Simple, Drug, Watches

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.

  Rupert Everett

  Character, Reflection, Interesting

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• Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

  James E. Faust

  Philosophy, Addiction, Drug

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• Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Choices, Drug

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm not saying it's an exceptionally dramatic peaks-and-valleys kind of life but there's a lot of it, honestly.

  Roddy Bottum

  Crazy, People, Addiction

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Expectations, Drug

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

  David Sheff

  Lying, Drug, Looks

  David Sheff (2008). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.

  George Ryan

  People, Drug, Majority

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• We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Addiction, Personality, Drug

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• From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, have honestly been about trying to peel back each of those habits, to get back to the 12-year-old kid inside who was tremendously excited about life.

  Dax Shepard

  Kids, Past, Eight

  "20 Questions: Dax Shepard". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. September 19, 2012.

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• It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Addiction, Drug, Challenges

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• My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

  Martin Sheen

  Recovery, Accomplishment, Addiction

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• Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. With Regression, I was certainly in Alejandro's [Amenabar] hands.

  Ethan Hawke

  Hands, Addiction, Drug

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Government, University Students, Addiction

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• Girls weren’t drug addicted, they were love addicted, and that, I’ll learn, is far harder to treat.

  Rachel Lloyd

  Girl, Drug, Treats

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• I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.

  Elton John

  Self, Drug, Sides

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were brilliant enough to make it happen. But then what? Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they'll never get again. In his suicide note, Cobain asked himself, "Why don't you just enjoy it?" and then answered, "I don't know!" It's amazing how much of a mindfuck success can be.

  Jay-Z

  Suicide, Drug, Feelings

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.117, Random House Group

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• According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Real, Differences

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• And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

  Black Thought

  Weed, Rap, Smoking

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