Addict Quotes - Page 12

• It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

  Gabor Mate

  Addiction, Drug, Relief

  Gabor Mate, M.D. (2009). “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction”, p.33, Knopf Canada

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• She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

  Neil Tennant

  Success, Europe, Lost Everything

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

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• I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.

  Kevin Sessums

  Guy, Hot, Looks

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

  Edie Falco

  Thinking, Acting, Accurate

  "A Conversation With Edie Falco". Interview by June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.

  John Waters

  Drug, Black, Speed

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• No one wants to say they hate their own body. Many are scared that if they confide in others then people will look down on them. This is wrong. It's not weak to talk about it. On the contrary. It's the same with alcoholics and drug addicts - you have to be honest with yourself first. When you have accepted the negatives you can then focus on the positives, like, I have nice hair, nice eyes, great cheekbones.

  Crystal Renn

  Nice, Hate, Eye

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.

  Russell Brand

  Drug, Kingdoms, Firsts

  "Russell Brand Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 31, 2010.

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• His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Choices, Drug, Sampling

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• Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Taken, Kids, Circles

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• Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

  Bill James

  Stress, Drug, Proud

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.

  Dan Savage

  Christian, Crazy, Teenager

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• Individual freedom and drug laws contradict each other. In a genuinely free society, people are free to ingest whatever they want to ingest, no matter how harmful or destructive. What people ingest is none of the government's business. If drug users or drug addicts wish to get help, a free society provides the means to do so.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Mean, Government, Law

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• You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

  Marian Keyes

  Real, Recovery, Addiction

  Marian Keyes (2005). “Rachel's Holiday”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."

  Brian Chippendale

  Writing, Documentation, Minutes

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Numbers, Pyramids, Long

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You’re going to share a Moon Pie? Now? You know you can’t get any more of those until you go back to the Sates, right? (Geary) It’s for a good cause. We need more addicts. Besides, there’s always Grandpa to bail me out with an emergency shipment if I get too desperate. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moon, Pie, Grandpa

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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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• Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Helping, Get Money

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• I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction.

  Lucas Till

  Games, Addiction, Support

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• When you're serious addict, you tend to lie a lot.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Lying, Serious

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I'm not looking to do anything for rehab as far as addicts, because that's not really what I do.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Rehab

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• You don't have to be a drug addict to care for your mind.

  Demi Lovato

  Drug, Mind, Care

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Nobody can become a drug addict if they're hip. Because it's obvious that if you're hip then you've got to make it. The buzz of all buzzes which is the thing that is God - you've got to be straight to get it.

  George Harrison

  Drug, Buzz, Hips

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Smart, Lying

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• I was a functional addict.

  James Taylor

  Addiction

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