Addiction Quotes

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
Arlen Specter

Great, Sports, Happen

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher Lasch

Belief, Media, Effect

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.
James Buchan

Life, Different, Fact

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
George A. Sheehan

Change, Power, Person

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
Iain Duncan Smith

School, Live, Broken

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Immune, Ages, Classes

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.
Jane Fonda

Life, Hard, Able

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.
Christopher Meloni

Love, Work, Important

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.
Jeffrey Kluger

Work, Depression, Mood

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.
Carnie Wilson

Food, Problem, Relax

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
Allan Bloom

Music, Nothing, Generation

Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.
Richard M. Daley

Business, Country, Why

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.
Tom Vilsack

Leadership, Food, America

My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.
Corey Feldman

Women, Beautiful, Surrounded

I have a writing addiction.
Prince

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
Martin Amis

Money, Strength, Mind

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.
Kirsten Dunst

Friends, Understand, Everyone

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
Anne Wilson Schaef

Two, Another, Process

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.
Corey Feldman

Time, Two, Short

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
Zooey Deschanel

Love, Down, Different

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.
Nikki Sixx

Music, Passion, Start

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.
Julie Bishop

Government, Give, Spending

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
Armistead Maupin

Used, Lives, Seems

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
Jamie Lee Curtis

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
Jay Inslee

Security, United, Break

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
Jay Inslee

Power, Help, Democracy

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.
Nicole Scherzinger

Music, Trust, Hurting

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
Ron Kind

Done, Seen, Foreign

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
Fisher Stevens

Night, Problem, Wanted

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.
Tommy Rettig

Help, Thought, Friends

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