(311 quotes found)
“Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.”
Ralph Nader
“Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.”
Dan Rather
“The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.”
George Bernard Shaw
“There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.”
Michael Douglas
“I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.”
“Space Invaders proved so addictive that it not only inaugurated an entire video game paradigm, it caused a nationwide coin shortage in Japan”
Chris Green
“Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.”
Kirsten Dunst
“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature”
Thorstein Veblen
“Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.”
Chris Rock
“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”
Clarence Day
