Addiction Quotes

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

MySpace is an addiction.

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

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.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

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.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

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

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

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.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.