addiction quotes

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

Rap was my drug.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

MySpace is an addiction.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?