"Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness."
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"After a few years of the addiction controlling my online life, and beginning to affect my life offline as well - meeting men and becoming physically involved with them - whether I believed in God or not, to me was moot. Anything that had as much control over my life as this addiction did could not be healthy."
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"Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other."
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"Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is."
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"It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction."
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"Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change."
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"[A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation."
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"Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds."
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"Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else."
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"The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life."
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"I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool."
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"To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master."
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"Success is both an addiction and an enslavement."
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"The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves."
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"It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever."
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"End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame."
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"By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life."
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"That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them."
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"In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted."
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"Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer."
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