Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray McGovern

The president says we are addicted to oil. He's quite right. We've reached the first resource-war. It's bizarre to think that this war had nothing to do with oil. The war misses the criteria that I learned in school that is needed for a just war... Oil is a blessing and a curse for Iraq.

The president is the one who said we're addicted to oil. This is his most important tool to curb that addiction.

Fighting America's oil addiction with these standards is like fighting lung cancer by smoking 49 cigarettes a day instead of 50.

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.

Caroline Leavitt

I am totally and completely addicted to movies. Jeff, my husband and I, watch movies every night and go out to the movies constantly.

Dexter Fletcher

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

We wanted to save this next generation from the horrible addiction to tobacco and we put a program into place to do exactly that, ... Now we're making huge cuts to that. It's not a good message at all.

To me, I guess, it just sums up the addiction of addiction, kind of the guilty pleasure in being addicted to something. I never really write about one thing in particular, so, I mean, it can be about a girl, or it can be about alcohol. It's just basically the guilty pleasure in enjoying addiction, trying to get away from wanting to be addicted to something, yet still feeling comfortable with it.

Amy Sedaris

Um, I played this lady who was in her late 40's/early 50's, who was a prostitute, drug addict and she decides to go back to high school to start her life all over again.

Mitch Hedberg

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Jose Rizal

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

Amy Jo Martin

I'm addicted to change and therefore I get bored easily. Results have always motivated me, which has led me to developing ways to measure things that historically have not been measurable.

Neneh Cherry

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Gary Fisher

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Our goal in smoking-related research is to detect those who are susceptible to nicotine, identify the best ways to prevent these persons from beginning to smoke and, if they do, determine how best to break the nicotine addiction that can result.

Carrie Fisher

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

Carrie Coon

I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement.

People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.

People not only had economic issues, at that time we began to see an epidemic of drug and alcohol abuse. Drug and alcohol addiction made it difficult for many to hold jobs and keep the family together.

Eric Schaeffer

Starved ... laughter is the best medicine. I know from my recovery in all areas of addiction that humor is a tremendously, tremendously important antidote to recovery.

Some people are impulsive, some people are not; some people think through their decisions while others don't, and sometimes this can become pathological. Impulsive behavior can be associated with all sorts of mental disorders like addiction or problem gambling. If it could be demonstrated that we could change the way people perceive risk and ambiguity by introducing a medication that could influence brain chemistry, someday we might be able to alleviate some types of pathological decision making.

My opinion is that anyone repeatedly driving DUI has an illness, and that illness is called alcoholism, ... Now, you've got someone with a disease, and you take away their license, and you have someone with an alcohol addiction with no license getting behind the wheel of a car. That's an additional crime, so you'll have someone going to jail. ? Now you've broken up the family and taken away the breadwinner.

Tom Clancy

My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel, ... And I read a lot of history.

John Carpenter

It follows a set of regulars that come to the Wrigley Field bleachers every Chicago Cubs game. Most of them have quirky little personalities; most of them are addicted in some way, shape or form to gambling. There is a lot of gambling going on, betting on just about everything from who's going to score next to who's going to get on first base to who's going to catch a fly ball.

Gene Luen Yang

I think, pretty much like everyone around my age, I grew up playing those classic video games. I wouldn't say I was addicted to them, but I definitely liked them.

It isn't always a guy on the street carrying a bottle around in a brown paper bag. And, you don't have to be a full-fledged drug addict to get yourself into serious trouble.

It is one form of harm reduction but to me it resigns everybody, including the addict, that since you have no hope of beating your addiction we'll just feed it in a controlled environment.

It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore.

Robert Holden

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Dyan Cannon

I was addicted to marijuana. I would have to have a puff off a joint before every take. I'd run out to the bathroom and come back.

I will not use my addiction as an excuse for what I've done. I take responsibility for my actions. I will never come back to this court again.

Gerard Way

I went to Japan not thinking I was coming back...I got on that plane, and I packed real light. I was so addicted to self-destruction, I think more than the drugs, there's something very romantic about it. I didn't pack anything. I packed show clothes...I thought I was gonna die. I thought I wasn't coming back.

Recovery is a long process. There can be four, five or more relapses before an addict gets clean. Parents get tired, disgusted and depressed. They lose faith in 'cures' and grow wary of treatments.