Addict Quotes - Page 14

• I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Meditation, Labels, Hopeless

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Two, Years

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• it was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your pick.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Sex, Drug, Television

  T.J. MacGregor (2016). “Storm Surge”, p.65, Crossroad Press

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• It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the fucking things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Kings, People, Drug

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Ayres, January 25, 2010.

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• I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

  Mark Ronson

  Sneakers, Serious, Moved On

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• I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market.

  Dennis Miller

  Giving, Roulette, Glad

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Half the people I look who are health food addicts look sickly to me. Let's start taxing health food. Somebody force a burger down some of these people's jaw because they look a little pale and wan to me.

  Dennis Miller

  People, Looks, Burgers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the pain go away. What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either.

  Steven Pressfield

  Pain, Artist, Men

  Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.45, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.

  Phoebe Snow

  School, Guy, Enthusiasm

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• I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

  Louise Jameson

  Addiction, Listening, Watches

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• Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drug, Vision, Records

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• You can't wear revealing clothes because of the sex addicts. Instead, you wear big bras, big pants and baggy tops. You're taught to respect others' addictions.

  Kerry Katona

  Sex, Clothes, Addiction

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• The Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency (the "experts") have slapped all manner of misconduct with diagnostic labels... The arsonist has ”pyromania,” the thief is inflicted with ”kleptomania,” and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ”sex-addict."

  Ilana Mercer

  Sex, Thieves, Disease

  "One Man's Malady, Another Man's Fetish". www.wnd.com. August 04, 2006.

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• Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Issues, Drug

  Tony Evans (2009). “Free at Last: Experiencing True Freedom Through Your Identity in Christ”, p.28, Moody Publishers

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• The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

  Alonzo King

  Art, Dope, Ballet

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• The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.

  Miguel

  Heart, Giving, Drug

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• You know, for a long time being a heavily tattooed woman was viewed as something gross, or you're either a criminal or a drug addict. It feels good to be a good representation of the art form versus being the token tattoo girl. I'm just glad that people even consider it to be sexy, because I think I'm just a big nerd so it works out.

  Kat Von D

  Tattoo, Girl, Sexy

  Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.askmen.com.

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• Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands... Colombia, Bolivia and Peru would not be suffering from narco-terror, and we would not be distorting our foreign policy because of it.

  Milton Friedman

  Ghetto, Men, Land

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• The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can't help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be anything but an amateur, because the industry requires the professional to put writing on hold not just for a day or two, or a week, but for years.

  Helen DeWitt

  Writing, Years, Two

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• Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

  Carrie Fisher

  California, Addiction, Los Angeles

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

  Brenda Ueland

  Fitness, Running, Nuts

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home. It's also cool that CFY will also make sure that they learn how to use them.

  Bow Wow

  Home, Use, Computer

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• Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Responsible, Taxpayers

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• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  Edie Falco

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 6, 2012.

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• That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

  Tim Tharp

  Games, Training, Giants

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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