Addicted Quotations

'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.

Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie.

I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.

It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.

I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.

I try to eat healthy, but being Belgian, I'm also addicted to chocolate.

The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

I grew up addicted to 'Star Trek' and 'Mission: Impossible.' Now I switch between 'South Park' and 'C-Span.'

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.

I always kind of wanted to be on 'CSI.' I'm kind of addicted to that show right now. I've never gotten to die in something, and I know that's a little gruesome, but I just think it would be really fun - I'd make it as dramatic as possible.

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married. I don't do the chat rooms anymore, but I have become completely addicted to Ebay.

Among the social media - I've tried them all - Facebook is a bit of a game, but Twitter is a productivity tool. I use it regularly and I'm addicted to it.

I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.

I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.

I am addicted to cereal. I am one of those people who just loves their cereal morning, noon and night. Kellogg's message is what I tell my kids every single day, which is: You've gotta start off your day right with a good, healthy breakfast to give yourself the potential for greatness.

Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

I am totally and completely addicted to movies. Jeff, my husband and I, watch movies every night and go out to the movies constantly.

I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

I'm addicted to change and therefore I get bored easily. Results have always motivated me, which has led me to developing ways to measure things that historically have not been measurable.

If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal.

I'm addicted to 'Lonely Planet' guides. Naturally, I'll buy one whenever I take a trip somewhere, but it goes beyond that: I've begun buying them for cities and countries I just hope to visit one day.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

We want them to get out, get a job and make progress. We want to help them make the change from being an addicted person to a recovering person.

Most of the time when kids get in trouble, alcohol is involved. A child who starts drinking at age 15 is four times more likely to become addicted to alcohol than a child who waits until 21.

One more hit of crack cocaine on these earnings. I felt we were so addicted to our quarterly earnings that we were selling our future revenue potential.

One who is addicted to intoxicating drinks and meat eating and leads a sensuous life is a demonic being.Such a person is intensely selfish and has no feeling or consideration for others.

My favorites are the chocolate-covered berries -- raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. They are just divine. The berries are always enormous and fresh. I'm also addicted to the almond butter crunch.

Now states are addicted to this money. The state, for better or for worse -- we are wedded now to those payments.

I guess I'm addicted to work and always going. To stop would be to die.

I'm a musician who's at the end of his rope who's been addicted to coke for a while,

I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.

I have been blessed to work for so many years with great musicians. That's my joke with my manager: that I'm addicted to musicians.

I have an iPhone, too, but I use the Blackberry more because I'm addicted to BBM'ing. I'm also on Twitter 24/7 and it's a lot easier on the BlackBerry.

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.

FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

If we look at the nation that President Bush leads, it also behaves in many ways like an addict. The United States is a gigantic John Candy of a country, straining its oversized elasticated pants from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The country is addicted to more or less everything, constantly craving greater and greater quantities of petrol, electricity, pointless sports, empty patriotism, fatty hormone-crammed meat, gigantic pedestrian-crushing four-wheel drive trucks, ever more baseball caps with nonsense written on them and unquestioning obedience from every nation on the planet.

If someone is addicted to chocolate, this may be a better choice than other chocolate bars. But to think that you are going to lower blood cholesterol levels, or chance of heart disease, by eating two of these a day - that is just wishful thinking.

He loves his wife so much that he thinks he is doing something to protect and save her, ... But what he's really doing is he's getting addicted to power. The more power he gets the more he wants and then once you do that, there's nothing left because you're willing to sacrifice everything. At the end of the day, Anakin sacrifices his family. He does fulfill his destiny after another 25 years and lets his son live and basically dies redeeming himself. But he goes through a lot of s--- and causes a lot of pain to people for a long time.

Khloe has the youngest hands. You can tell a woman's age by her hands, and she taught me that. She has way younger hands than I do because she's addicted to wearing sunscreen on them. I'm not consistent with it, but maybe that will be my new year's resolution.

I think the president has it correct. We are addicted to foreign energy sources, almost to the point where we are captives. Our nation grapples with going 8,000 miles away to try to protect our energy sources.

I think it's the right model. That has to be part of the continuum of services. The aim is not to keep people addicted to their addictions in the long term. It's trying to get them into a social setting where we have an opportunity to . . . address their addictions issues.

It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore.

I was addicted to marijuana. I would have to have a puff off a joint before every take. I'd run out to the bathroom and come back.

I went to Japan not thinking I was coming back...I got on that plane, and I packed real light. I was so addicted to self-destruction, I think more than the drugs, there's something very romantic about it. I didn't pack anything. I packed show clothes...I thought I was gonna die. I thought I wasn't coming back.

I think the whole idea of eradicating the drug problem is a false idea, ... You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs. Once you accept this point, you may be able to develop a more rational approach to the problem.

I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.

My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel, ... And I read a lot of history.

It follows a set of regulars that come to the Wrigley Field bleachers every Chicago Cubs game. Most of them have quirky little personalities; most of them are addicted in some way, shape or form to gambling. There is a lot of gambling going on, betting on just about everything from who's going to score next to who's going to get on first base to who's going to catch a fly ball.

I think, pretty much like everyone around my age, I grew up playing those classic video games. I wouldn't say I was addicted to them, but I definitely liked them.

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

That young growing brain can be immediately impacted to where they are addicted and they want that high. But they will never achieve it again.

I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded a

Most of our clients are suicidal, psychotic, bipolar, schizophrenic or sex offenders. They make an income of less than $3,000 a year and have been kicked off welfare. They need medicine, but cannot afford it. Many have been abused or in prison and have been addicted to crack and alcohol.

We're all addicted to sort of the habits of our lives. And we get stuck, and sometimes we'll get stuck because we had traumas that we don't want to remember.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

The Democratic Party is like an addict. They're addicted to failure.

When people achieve a certain level of success, if they haven't healed that core fear, then they don't want anybody to rock the boat because they are afraid of losing the little success that they have. They don't realize that if they would just open the door and expand a little bit they could have twice as much success with less struggle and effort, but people are addicted to struggle.

Tobacco use is the single leading cause of preventable death. The vast majority of all adult tobacco users became addicted as teens. If we don?t work to prevent teens from using tobacco, we risk losing thousands of lives and spending more and more money treating tobacco-related illnesses.

The president says we are addicted to oil. He's quite right. We've reached the first resource-war. It's bizarre to think that this war had nothing to do with oil. The war misses the criteria that I learned in school that is needed for a just war... Oil is a blessing and a curse for Iraq.

The president is the one who said we're addicted to oil. This is his most important tool to curb that addiction.

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.

To me, I guess, it just sums up the addiction of addiction, kind of the guilty pleasure in being addicted to something. I never really write about one thing in particular, so, I mean, it can be about a girl, or it can be about alcohol. It's just basically the guilty pleasure in enjoying addiction, trying to get away from wanting to be addicted to something, yet still feeling comfortable with it.

Twenty-five billion frankly doesn't surprise me. In the U.S. alone, right now there are about 3 million users who would potentially be affected. One million of those are government and law-enforcement workers who would presumably be exempt -- so, say, 2 million people who are essentially addicted to their Blackberries, and without them their business would basically evaporate.

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

Vandalism happens in almost all cemeteries around the world. It has for hundreds of years. Young people seem to be addicted to it.

Director Portman will be inheriting the most dire long-term fiscal outlook we've ever had. The first baby boomers retire in 18 months, and the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid costs are set to explode. On top of that, he'll be dealing with a Congress that's absolutely addicted to runaway spending and pork!

During the summer of '65, I became fairly addicted to Password. I enjoyed his work as a host and thought that this wasn't a bad way to make a living.

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

I've been using it for two years and so far I haven't had any physical effects. But I am addicted to checking it every 30 seconds or so, much to the chagrin of my husband.

I've lived with God every day for a long time. When I got busted in 1987 I turned myself in because I knew I'd messed up. What I did was so shocking to me. I hurt people, stole from them. For about three weeks I just lost myself, my morality, values. I didn't care about anything or anybody in the world. I knew it couldn't go on. For several years after that I read books to try to find out what happened to me, and I finally decided I got bitter, I was addicted to heroin. I was in a bad marriage where drugs were involved and I got to a point where I didn't care about myself because I had such a horrible life.

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

I've always been a beauty junkie. I've tried every product. I'm addicted to products. I can't go into the mall without buying everything. I said to my manager, 'I should get a beauty deal, I'm going to go broke buying all these products.

People become addicted to the high of pornography and sexual activity in the same way that others become addicted to the high of alcohol or drugs.

Some people are addicted to seeing catastrophe in the future.

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.

As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.

The Bush administration's lax new gas mileage standards are unfortunately going to keep America addicted to oil for a long time to come and accelerate impacts from global climate change. The fuel efficiency increases are miniscule compared to what is possible with existing technology and the major reforms urgently needed to cut air pollution, combat global climate change and save money at the gas pump. The Bush administration is figuratively and literally fiddling while the earth burns. The U.S. can and must do better if we are going to leave a habitable and tolerable planet for our children and grandchildren.

You must learn to work without me. You cannot be here always, you have other works to do. You have come from different countries all over the world. For a few days you will be here with me. If you become addicted to my physical presence, then rather than being a help, it may become a disturbance. Because then when you go away, you will miss me. Your meditation should be such here, that it can happen without my presence. Then, wherever you go, the meditation will not in any way be affected.

This is a bipartisan effort to support ethanol. President Bush said we're addicted to oil. He's right.

They screwed me out of about two grand. It didn't matter because I already had caught the bug. It became the most abusive, passionate relationship and I've been addicted every since.

They say you have to exhibit physical withdrawal for it to be an addiction. But clearly, people will say that psychologically and emotionally, they are addicted to sugar.

America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.