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Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? -- Clifford Stoll
I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts. -- Amy Sedaris
My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years. -- Columba Bush
People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years. -- Corey Feldman
I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that. -- Kelly Osbourne
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Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened. -- Claes Oldenburg
The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone. -- Ludwig von Mises
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of. -- Aimee Mann
I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict. -- Lenny Kravitz
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope. -- Russell Brand
No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work. -- Whitney Houston
Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place. -- Jacque Fresco
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages. -- Angela Davis
I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby? -- Dustin Hoffman
In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice. -- Aimee Mann
But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn. -- Elton John
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. -- George Bernard Shaw
Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict. -- George Bernard Shaw
Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? -- Clifford Stoll
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? -- Clifford Stoll
You don't have to be a drug addict to care for your mind. -- Demi Lovato
Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict? -- John Waters
I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. -- John Waters
If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times. -- Russell Brand
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. -- Truman Capote
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. -- Mindy Kaling
It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict. -- Howard Charles
If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems. -- Russell Brand
I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict. -- Steve Earle
A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house. -- Demetri Martin
What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything. -- Steve Earle
I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday. -- Diego Maradona
An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. -- David Sheff
When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner. -- Taryn Manning
I've been playing a lot of really strong, able woman, but I think it would be really fun to play a crazy drug addict, or something. -- Catherine Bell
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive... -- Robbin Crosby
Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue. -- Tony Evans
I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness. -- Russell Brand
As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction. -- Jim Ramstad
I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat.That was until I became one -- Cathryn Kemp
I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat.That was until I became one... -- Cathryn Kemp
Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading. -- Sin Mils
Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue. -- Ishmael Reed
...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes. -- Sara Davidson
If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries -- Ian Botham
If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us. -- Anthony Hopkins
Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?' -- Ellen Burstyn
Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be a writer? That's it! They totally gave up on me after that. -- Luis J. Rodriguez
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive. -- Stephen King
Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses. -- Richard M. Daley
When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser. -- Riccardo Tisci
In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers." -- Christopher McDougall
In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers. -- Christopher McDougall
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides. -- James Dickey
The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient. -- Rita Mae Brown
I always wanted to do dramas. Ever since I was young, I wanted to be in a role where I could play a prostitute or a drug addict, because it's nice to be able to portray someone who is so far from you, which I love. -- Vanessa Hudgens
I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all. -- John Waters
From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, have honestly been about trying to peel back each of those habits, to get back to the 12-year-old kid inside who was tremendously excited about life. -- Dax Shepard
When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force. -- Russell Brand
Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, -- Pope Francis
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development. -- Alice Miller
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values. -- Malcolm X
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. -- Emile M. Cioran
Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility. -- Joe Baca
Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel. -- David Wilkerson
If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available. -- Henry Rollins
The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many. -- David Wilkerson
And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it -- Black Thought
Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her. -- Tatjana Soli
His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough. -- Jeaniene Frost
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour. -- Gabor Mate
I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them. -- Peter Sarsgaard

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