#addict

I've triumphed over addiction. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#i #over #triumphed

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#autobiography #celebrity #drug addict #his #means

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#addicted #because #funny #got #i

For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs. ↗

— Judge Reinhold

#because #boys and girls #club #home #home life

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. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#addiction #always #felt #friends #had

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#allowing #become #believing #celebrity #danger

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#addicted #climbing #environment #extraordinary #i

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#been #broken #chaotic #crime #domestic

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#athletes #based #competition #excitement #generated

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given