#addict

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. ↗

— Josh Billings

#exaggeration #lying #people #some #some people

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

— Julie Bishop

#borrowing #give #government #must #spending

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#addiction #generation #more #music #nothing

I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind. ↗

— Greg Evigan

#away #challenge #i #looking #matter

MySpace is an addiction. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#myspace

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity.” We are not passive couch potatoes either. “It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short to be alive.” We are also not cogs in a machine. To be so would be to give up our personal freedoms so as to not upset The Machine, whatever that machine is. Creativity keeps us creating the life we wish to live and advancing humanity’s purpose as well. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#addictions #consumer-culture #consumerism #creation #creativity

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#addicted #being #book #buy #could

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.' ↗

— Harrison Ford

#addicted #call #i #pills #them

This dark diction has become America's addiction. ↗

— Kanye West

#america #become #dark #diction

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. ↗

— Cornel West

#cheap #clever #distraction #gimmicks #mass