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In a world where headphones drown out the whispers of imagination, starving the mind of pathways myriad must become an act of rebellion.
Author:
Sunday Lark
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Author:
Kanye West
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Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
Author:
Dennis Weaver
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Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.
Author:
John Walters
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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
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Thorstein Veblen
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Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Author:
Robert Trout
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I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Author:
Edward Teller
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People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.
Author:
Fisher Stevens
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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.
Author:
Fisher Stevens
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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.
Author:
Nikki Sixx
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We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
Author:
George Sheehan
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We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
Author:
Anne Schaef
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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Author:
Jay Roach
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It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
Author:
Keith Richards
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I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.
Author:
Tommy Rettig
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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.
Author:
Jim Ramstad
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As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.
Author:
Jim Ramstad
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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.
Author:
River Phoenix
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I've triumphed over addiction.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
Author:
Ben Nicholson
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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.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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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.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
Author:
Armistead Maupin
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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.
Author:
Aimee Mann
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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.
Author:
Aimee Mann
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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
Author:
Ron Kind
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
Author:
Patrick Kennedy
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Author:
Carl Jung
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But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
Author:
Elton John
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We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
Author:
Jay Inslee
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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.
Author:
Jay Inslee
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When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.
Author:
Gwen Ifill
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It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
Author:
Ken Hensley
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For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
Author:
Lee Hamilton
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People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.
Author:
Corey Feldman
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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.
Author:
Kirsten Dunst
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Author:
Clarence Day
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Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.
Author:
Richard Daley
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I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
Author:
Jamie Curtis
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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.
Author:
Jim Costa
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She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
Author:
Ellen Burstyn
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I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.
Author:
Steve Brown
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We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.
Author:
Sherwood Boehlert
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
Author:
Allan Bloom
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We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in.
Author:
Stephen Bennett
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I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.
Author:
Eric Avery
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
Author:
W. Auden
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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.
Author:
Martin Amis
