#addict

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#bad #bad thing #doctors #media #medicine

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#amplified #any #border #could #cross

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop. ↗

— Judy Collins

#alas #am #anything #because #ever

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#memoir #recovery #suicide #surviving #transformation

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#future #goal #main #main goal #stop

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#alcoholic #because #i #know

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. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#addiction #board #center #columbia #columbia university

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. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#agencies #alcohol #business #businesses #certain

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out. ↗

— Evan Dando

#addictive #alcohol #around #certainly #i

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted. ↗

— Fred Durst

#addicted #ago #anyone #anything #around