Addiction Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gene Tierney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Poppy Delevingne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Van Jones
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I could have made $2bn or $3bn - and ended up with some very cruel addiction - but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harry Belafonte
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You can't wear revealing clothes because of the sex addicts. Instead, you wear big bras, big pants and baggy tops. You're taught to respect others' addictions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kerry Katona
			
			
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		When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Om Puri
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aldous Huxley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Winona LaDuke
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kate Middleton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marianne Williamson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Isaac Asimov
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matthew Perry
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Not why the addiction, but why the pain.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gabor Mate
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Costa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pauline Kael
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Mantzoukas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Billy Corgan
			
			
				The Smashing Pumpkins