Addiction Quotes

• Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

  

  Neal Gabler
  • Writing
  • Profession
  • Addiction

• For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Girl
  • Technology
  • Promise

• Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Running
  • Goals
  • Addiction

• Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• 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 Atomic Kitten
  • Clothes
  • Bigs
  • Addict

• 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
  • Today
  • Addiction

• These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Time
  • Live
  • Depression

• 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
  • Addiction

• I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Support

• What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Mind
  • Dangerous
  • Solutions

• Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
  • Children
  • Hope

• Although I eat healthily, I do enjoy a greasy fry-up, but usually only once a year. I've also got a big Kit-Kat addiction and buy them in bulk.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Up
  • Addiction

• Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Addiction

• The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

  

  Gabor Mate
  • Passion
  • Addiction

• Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Addiction

• Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

  

  John Walters
  • People
  • American
  • Marijuana

• A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

  

  Gabor Mate
  • May
  • Brain
  • Hurt

• Historical Overdosing: to live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Live
  • Period

• That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

  

  Eric Avery Jane's Addiction
  • Regret
  • Addiction

• 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
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Evil

• This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

  

  David Sheff
  • Kids
  • Treatment
  • Factor

• MySpace is an addiction.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Addiction

• As parents, we have kids who reflect back to us our addiction to devices, and we have all sorts of worries about whether this is a healthy thing.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Addiction

• In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Family
  • Community

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