Addiction Quotes
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You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.
Dennis Farina -
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
Wagner Moura -
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
Os Guinness -
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Kanye West -
I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.
Fisher Stevens -
Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.
Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
Larry David
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I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung -
One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.
David Bowie -
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch -
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
Dennis Weaver -
Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
Jon Kabat-Zinn -
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 -
I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.
Bruce Anthony Johannesson
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India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.
Vikram Patel -
To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.
Barack Obama -
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
Lady Gaga -
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