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• Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

  John Hart

  Mind, Denial, Weapons

  John Hart (2010). “The King of Lies”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

  Alan Kay

  Communication, Humanity, Enough

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• I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

  William Hurt

  Long, Fiction, Science Fiction

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• During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.

  Leonard Orr

  Bunch, Seminars

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• As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

  Hari Kunzru

  Fashion, Art, Hunting

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• At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.

  Matt Skiba

  Bmx, Motorcycle, Age

  "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.

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• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  Johnny Depp

  Taken, Lunch, Luxury

  "The two Johnnies". www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2005.

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• The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.

  Shannon Hoon

  Crazy, Thinking, Moments

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• I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.

  Cobi Jones

  Kids, Games, Video

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• I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Animal, Years, Issues

  "Key & Peele: 'That’s what Obama should say'". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 7, 2012.

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• I'm not an adrenaline junkie. It's never been about thrills for me. I'm just someone who loves a challenge.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Challenges, Adrenaline

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• I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

  Stephen Colbert

  Expectations, Trying, Settings

  "A Tribute To Stephen Colbert, A Self-Proclaimed "Junkie For Exhaustion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 18, 2014.

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• There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as palpable and relentless as any junkie's craving, and will possess me all day until I can park myself in a chair and do my work.

  Jillian Medoff

  Drama, Writing, Desire

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Want

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• Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

  Robert MacNeil

  Night, Tunes, News

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• Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

  John Legend

  Kings, Kids, Rights

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• Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity.

  Matthew Hussey

  Mean, Exercise, Sanity

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

  Johnny Marr

  Guitar, Age, Four

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• I think I am a travel junkie and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Thinking, Enjoyed

  "I’d like to give Jab We Met an overhaul: Imtiaz Ali". Interview with Rajeev Masand, www.rajeevmasand.com.

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• The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode

  Andrew Schneider

  Crush, Real, Sleep

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• Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.

  Dave McPherson

  Sports, Player, Accomplishment

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• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

  Sally Quinn

  Imagine, Newspapers, I Can

  "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . / Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn / Journalism heroes turn focus to aging". Interview with Paul Wilner, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 2005.

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• I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

  Christina Perri

  Morning, Ice Cream, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an Internet junkie.

  Marion Jones

  Internet

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

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