Hooked Quotes - Page 9

• We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Oil, Car, Meat

  "Diet for a Small Planet". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 1971.

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• Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.

  Timothy Leary

  Tunes, Robots, Routine

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”, p.7, Ronin Publishing

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• There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

  George Harrison

  Philosophy, Heart, Care

  Song: Poor Little Girl

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• Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me, cause I'll just use you then I'll set you free.

  Mac Davis

  Baby, Honesty, Causes

  Song: Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me

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• The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A nicer family picture album? Elderly parents who are truly well cared for? Children who have an edge in school, on tests, in college and beyond? If we can afford the services involved, many if not most of us are prone to say, 'Sure, why not?

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, School, College

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• Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

  Edie Falco

  Men, Careers, Roles

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• Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

  Ludacris

  Spiritual, Religious, Religion

  Song: Mouthing Off

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• I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.

  Marvin Gaye

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.

  Reeve Carney

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

  Eoin Colfer

  Reading, Over You, Series

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• Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

  Bob Balaban

  Play, Theater

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Fun, Energy, Batteries

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

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• I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

  Alan Jackson

  Baby, Strong, Jugs

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• I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

  Kevin Pollak

  Towns, Tvs, Murder

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Ideas, Feelings, Style

  "60 SECONDS: Marcus Brigstocke". Interview with Paul Kevan, metro.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.

  Johnny Depp

  Memories, Stress, Sadness

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• My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

  Andrew Strauss

  Summer, Cheer, Scotland

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• Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Water, Causality

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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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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• I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!

  Matthias Schoenaerts

  Directors, Rust, Bones

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• I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

  Annalena McAfee

  Computer, Print, Addict

  "Annalena McAfee: 'I see myself as a recovering journalist'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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• I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

  A. Scott Berg

  Book, Age, Firsts

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• Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Happiness, Gratitude, Thinking

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• I'm completely hooked on polo.

  Mike Rutherford

  Polo

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• I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Jobs, Writing, Beer

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