#addict

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same. ↗

— Joe Hill

#information #internet

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#am #beautiful #beautiful person #horrible #i

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#kinds #lie #over #screw #things

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#person #then #who #you

I am a work in progress. ↗

— Violet Yates

#depression #poetry #recovery #progress

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility. ↗

— Joe Baca

#caring #children #get #making #our

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#addict #am #before #call #cell

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#borrowing #give #government #must #spending

MySpace is an addiction. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#myspace

I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#along #become #believe #denying #gene