Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Addict Quotes from famous persons: Will Self, Ralph Fiennes, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ella Woodward, Beth Ostrosky Stern. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Addict Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: ‘You simply don’t understand – how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?’ But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she‘s created, but I’m not an addict of Harry Potter. I don’t feel possessive about it.
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Because I know I’m an addict, and I know I’m an alcoholic.
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn’t seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.
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I’m a chocolate addict.
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I’m a tan addict.
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When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.
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I am a roller-coaster addict.
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Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating.
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I am a consummate metaphor addict.
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I’m a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.
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I’m a TV addict.
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Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there’s little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
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I’m a sugar addict.
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‘Higher Power‘ was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It’s a very, very tough thing – very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.
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I grew up watching television. I’m a television addict. I had all these heroes, but they didn’t look like me.
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I was a functional addict.
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I’m a true-crime addict. It’s not something I’m particularly proud of, but I can’t stop.
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I think readers are always patient. Look at the ‘Harry Potter‘ series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.
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I’m a huge food addict.
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I don’t take for granted all the blessings that I have, and as soon as I heard about Computers for Youth, I really wanted to be involved. Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I’m a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home.
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There’s a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who’s not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you’re going to fix him and make him better, and of course it’s impossible.
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I’m a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.
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I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney addict.
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So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners’ World addict again.
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I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. ‘Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?’
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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
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I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I’d wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.
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You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.
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I love video games. Me and Meth are video game addicts.
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I love food. I’m a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that, but I love eating; I never stop eating.
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It’s sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I’m ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
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I’m an addict. I’ve been one my whole life. Most of it was channeled in the right direction, whether it was playing basketball or working out. From the time I was little, my mom said I always needed to be entertained.
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I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that’s no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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If you are an addict yourself, how are you going to fight drugs? That’s why the dope test is compulsory for Punjab Police personnel and youngsters joining, regardless of what newspapers are saying that women should be exempted.
