#addict

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#experienced #hard #understand #unless #you

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#argue #back #because #could #creative

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. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#addicted #after #among #being #business

When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#addiction #america #appearance #asked #connection

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#attention #fame #golf #money #none

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#change

I have an addiction to caffeine. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#caffeine #i

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#american #association #become #begins #conducted

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#become #connecticut #exposed #fact #four

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women. ↗

— Andre Benjamin

#creating #drink #i #probably #rarely