America’s addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify. – Henry Giroux
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. – Hunter S. Thompson
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He’s such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane’s Addiction. – James Mercer
I have the obsessiveness of someone who’s a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. – John Mayer
I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn’t in show business, I’d have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It’s kinda sick. – Jeff Dunham
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can. – John Oliver
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board. – Jamie Lee Curtis
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States. – Jay Inslee
All behavioral or mood disorders – including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction – have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them. – Jeffrey Kluger
Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. – Iain Duncan Smith
There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction. – John Fleming
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. – Christopher Lasch
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. – Christopher Lasch
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity. – Beth Moore
Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally. – Andy Serkis
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. – Anne Wilson Schaef
I don’t have, you know, an ‘overcoming addiction’ story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven’t overcome that. I don’t have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests. – Brad Paisley
Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that’s why it’s come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. – Caitlin Moran
Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn’t like I could walk into a bar and order a drink. – Matthew Perry
I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it’s a little edgy for Saturday night. – Fisher Stevens
Jane’s Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively. – Dave Navarro
There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction. – David Dastmalchian
