I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

I have a sugar addiction - when I don't eat sugar, my body literally shakes. It's not something I'm proud of.

Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.

I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.

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

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

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

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, 'I've got to do this.'

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

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

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.

A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

I spend a lot of time unpacking the pain surrounding my addiction - both my own and the pain I caused other people.

Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine.

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.

Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

I love to help others that are suffering from the disease of addiction, and I'm just very, very passionate about that.

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

I feel guilty about smoking way too much - and I have a bit of an addiction to chocolate milk shakes, which is not good.

I have to cross the line first. Sometimes you can put it as a fear of losing, but actually it's an addiction to winning.

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

Addiction's some kind of disease? No, it's not. It's a mask for pain that usually comes from childhood and fatherlessness.

Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

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