Addiction Quotes
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I've triumphed over addiction.
 Tatum O'Neal
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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
 Garry Shandling
					 
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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
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These diseases, both alcoholism and addiction, much like bipolar or depression and different illnesses, are still not seen as real diseases. People shy away from seeking help because it's viewed as being somewhat morally off the path, that they've lost their way.
 Jim Irsay
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Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
 Barry Schwartz
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What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
 Linda Ronstadt
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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
 Jon Kabat-Zinn
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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
					 
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It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
 Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.
 Barack Obama
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Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.
 Anne Sexton
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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
 Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
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I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.
 Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
					 
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Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
 Pierre Dukan
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Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.
 Bruce Anthony Johannesson
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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
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If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.
 Dana Boente
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Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage-thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
 Warren Farrell
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I look at the way that my kids interact with technology, and it becomes a mirror to the ways in which I myself interact with technology. I can see the ways in which that addiction and compulsion starts to settle in on them, and it's much more unnerving to see it in them than it is to experience it myself.
 Franklin Foer
					 
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I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.
 Janice Dickinson
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
 Patrick J. Kennedy
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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
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
 bell hooks