Famous Quotes & Sayings

It encourages the use of a substance we think is harmful, ... It's a harmful, addictive substance.

Gambling can be just as addictive as drugs and alcohol. Teens and their parents need to know that they're not just gambling with money, their gambling with their lives.

I've seen cases of parents with bad credit that use their kid's name to get utilities. Other cases involved friends with addiction or gambling problems that steal your personal information to open credit card accounts.

It is worth it even if only the financial balance sheet for society is considered: a few years of investment versus a subsequent lifetime of productive activity. Perhaps a cycle prevented with children's lives changed. Health problems averted. Addiction and crime avoided as ways to cope with hopelessness.

Oil addiction can happen to anyone. For too long people have not faced up to their addiction and the consequences are now obvious. Your oil addition not only ruins your life and the life of your families, but the lives of most of the world's inhabitants.

A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.

After half a century in psychiatric practice, I know without a doubt that the source of addiction is spiritual deficiency. Irrespective of whether we are religious or atheist, all human beings are spiritual by nature and spirituality is the cornerstone of our recovery.

Addiction thrives in secrecy. The only real difference is that they can hide this one easier.

John Walters

Addiction is a serious problem for our nation, and the efforts that individuals make against this problem benefit us all.

A couple of years ago, my husband started playing fantasy football, and I learned quickly how addictive it could be. I was into it, but I kept thinking, 'I don't follow the stats and I don't follow all the teams.' I joked I was going to start a fantasy fashion league for my friends.

Peter Bernstein

Some people are addicted to seeing catastrophe in the future.

Hugh Hefner

So unless you can turn sexual addiction on and off ... .

Space Invaders proved so addictive that it not only inaugurated an entire video game paradigm, it caused a nationwide coin shortage in Japan

Craig Benson

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.

So when you're dealing with one addict, you're dealing with 8 to 10 other people that get affected because of the addiction. We have to look at public policy, the government, the people who are leaders and rely on them to do better public policy when it comes to a very, very addictive product.

DeShawn Stevenson

Once you get one - and when you're told you can't get them growing up - it just makes you want them even more. Once you get one, they're pretty much addictive from that point.

I've always had an interest and addiction to photography. I do events and weddings and my specialty is golf course photography.

Jason Calacanis

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

Serena Williams

I've always been a beauty junkie. I've tried every product. I'm addicted to products. I can't go into the mall without buying everything. I said to my manager, 'I should get a beauty deal, I'm going to go broke buying all these products.

Natalie Cole

I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.

Kevin Rudd

A terrible piece of work. Addicted to the media and leaking. A junior minister in Government at best.

It's a stressful job to be in. You're always looking for work, ... Once you're a superstar, if you started smoking when you were a struggling actor, it's very hard to quit. It's a highly addictive product.

This is a classical gambling addiction where the person feels it's over and takes everybody down,

This is a bipartisan effort to support ethanol. President Bush said we're addicted to oil. He's right.

They screwed me out of about two grand. It didn't matter because I already had caught the bug. It became the most abusive, passionate relationship and I've been addicted every since.

Joy Bauer

They say you have to exhibit physical withdrawal for it to be an addiction. But clearly, people will say that psychologically and emotionally, they are addicted to sugar.

Janet Reno

This organization operated in a dangerously efficient manner, ... Not only did this group exhibit disregard for the law, but their peddling of this powerful and addictive drug showed an even greater disregard for human life.

There were times when people could have gone either way. Either back to homelessness and addiction or forward. She would say just a comforting word, give you a hug, no matter what you looked like.

Will Adams

There's a huge chasm between us and big business. They're addicted to cheap labor, which illegal aliens provide. It's in their interests to keep the border porous and to keep the labor flowing.

This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

Charlie Miller

This is the president who has said we are addicted to oil. But if this is the best we can do, we aren't going to get out of rehab.

David Robertson

This is the most addictive form of gambling that's even been invented. You've got a casino in your home now. You don't have to get in your car or go somewhere.

This is why this fight is really a social justice issue for me. In the end, millions of people are addicted to killing themselves and multinational corporations are profiting from it.