Addict Quotes - Page 7

• If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Ocean

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• I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

  Gillian Flynn

  Proud, Crime, I Can

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• If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life.

  Kathy Smith

  Uplifting, Book, People

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• We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependant on what is wrong. But that is the addict's excuse, and we know that it will not do.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Waste, Obstacles

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.201, Counterpoint

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• Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations.

  Mallory Ortberg

  People, Attention, Becoming

  "Just a Little Crush". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 7, 2016.

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• Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Hurt, Mean, Found

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Downfall

  "Valerie Bertinelli comes clean on drugs, infidelity" by Jen Brown and Bob Considine, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Phones, Cells, Numbers

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

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• I've never done anything that I felt was crossing the line for me. But everybody has to make that decision individually. Like, I've never shot heroin to play a heroin addict. I've never turned a trick to play a prostitute. Whatever. You draw the line where you feel it could be harmful.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Decision, Done, Heroin

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Fifty years ago, the way that we consumed food was revolutionized. We began eating processed foods, and it seemed amazing. And then we woke up many decades later, and we realized that food was engineered to make us fat. And I think that such companies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are doing the same thing with the stuff that we ingest through our brains. They're attempting to addict us, and they're addicting us on the basis of data.

  Franklin Foer

  Thinking, Google, Brain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Routine Work, Creative, May

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

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• Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

  Ellen Burstyn

  Depressing, Play, Drug

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, Grace, Desperate

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2014

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• The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.

  David Burtka

  Giving Up, Years, Breathing

  "When Stars Collide". www.out.com. January 18, 2012.

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• People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

  Kevin Sessums

  Acceptance, Asking Why, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts.

  Bill Maher

  Law, Oxycontin, Issues

  "Four Questions for Bill Maher". "Good Morning America" with Jake Tapper, www.yahoo.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I'm what they call the love addict!

  Zach Sobiech

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• If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Body, Causes, Serious

  Interview with Sloane Crosley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 3, 2013.

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• The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.

  Eminem

  Worst, Happened, Worst Things

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

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• Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

  John Warren Kindt

  Military, Gambling, Focus

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• So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

  Ken Thompson

  World, Gardener, I Can

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• Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Habit, Irrational

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Country, New York, Warrior

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• My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals.

  Michael K. Williams

  Law, Goal, Drug

  Source: www.ebony.com

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