Junkie Quotes

• Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Thinking, People

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• I've seen the needle
  And the damage done
  A little part of it in everyone
  But every junkie's
  Like a settin' sun.

  Neil Young

  Done, Littles, Damage

  Song: The Needle and the Damage Done

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• Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

  Russell Brand

  Sexy, Recovery, Vegetarianism

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 11, 2012

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• An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

  Stella Adler

  Addiction, Use, Body

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• The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Pie, Long, Facts

  "Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers". Interviewer Magazine Interview with Mark Marvel, October, 1994.

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• I don't care if people think I'm a junkie or a loser.

  Steven Drozd

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Looks, Purses, Helping

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• There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

  Henry Rollins

  Exes

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• The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

  Malcolm X

  Cures, Conditions

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.267, Ballantine Books

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• Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

  Darcey Steinke

  Needs, Feels, Dose

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• For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.

  Jerry Stahl

  Trying, Shirts, Puke

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Trying, Ifs

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• Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.

  Jerry Stahl

  Liars

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

  William S. Burroughs

  Special, Flesh, Nagging

  William S. Burroughs (2012). “Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"”, p.150, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Doctors, Drug

  William S. Burroughs (2012). “Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Shoes, Soul, Steel

  Scott Westerfeld (2007). “The Last Days”, p.85, Penguin

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• Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Citizens, Pollution

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.24, Macmillan

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• It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.

  Joshua Mohr

  Art, Tunnels, Vision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.

  Rick James

  Pimp, Looks, Faces

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Sep 27, 2013

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• I could have completely lost my mind or became a junkie or abandoned all sense and judgment and committed some rash, stupid act that would have sent me right back into the cage. Instead, I chose to be happy - but not so much for the sake of happiness as for spite.

  Jim Goad

  Stupid, Mind, Sake

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

  Willem Dafoe

  Adventure, Different, Actors

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does.

  Stephen Colbert

  Doe, News, Huge

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

  Al Gore

  Veins, Arms, Toes

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• I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Writing, Language, Canvas

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• I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.

  Alber Elbaz

  Drug, Dealer, Ifs

  "Alber's Philosophy" By Ella Alexander, www.vogue.co.uk. September 5, 2011.

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