Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it’s rough out there. But the bottom line is you’ve got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I’m totally addicted to traveling.
The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.
I’m completely addicted to Radio 4, even 100-year-old things like ‘Just a Minute.’ I even arrange my weekends around the Sunday edition of ‘The Archers.’
I have a lamp problem. I’m addicted to lamps.
I’m addicted to ‘Scandal.’ Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to ‘Boardwalk Empire.’ Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
I am really addicted to music.
It’s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.
I like to read first thing in the morning. I’m addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I’m not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.
I’m addicted to something at all times. Like, it’s always music, but maybe sometimes it’s a pair of pants or something else. That’s just how my personality works.
I’ve always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I’ve never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from ‘Big Love’ to romantic comedy, to period film… I can’t sit still.
To address the open question of whether we are addicted to technological devices and platforms, Congress must understand the current scientific consensus, potential gaps in research, and the best way to build a body of evidence that can inform effective policymaking.
When I spend money on myself, it’s almost always on shoes and clothes. I’m addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.
I love the show ‘Damages!’ I am truly addicted.
With a sinking feeling, I have come to a horrible conclusion: I am addicted to Donald Trump.
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.
The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that’s not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.
You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it’s like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I’m addicted, that I’m no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.
I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases – I’m addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
What I’m really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren’t competent readers coming out of middle school, it’s really going to be hard for them in high school.
‘Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don’t teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.
I used to be addicted to ‘Reader’s Digest’ growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that’s where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
Mostly we are addicted to television shows for two reasons; whether it’s because we get to connect with the story-line as somewhat similar is faced by all of us, or otherwise it gives you something which is totally fictional, unrealistic but catchy.
In love addiction that experience of: ‘Oh my God, I’m in love… I feel whole, and I feel like I’ve known this person forever.’ That is a feeling that you have to have all the time. You become addicted to it.
I’ve treated so many adults who are desperate – desperate – to get off tobacco. They all started as kids. I see the industry getting another generation of our kids addicted.
Like most people I knew, I thought drug addicts were the kinds of people we see in doorways in neighbourhoods most of us try to avoid – people obviously strung out, often homeless and possibly psychotic. I didn’t think my son could become addicted, but he had.
I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips with. By 1990, it was in danger of ruining my life.
I think I’ve been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don’t show.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games… and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.
Khloe has the youngest hands. You can tell a woman’s age by her hands, and she taught me that. She has way younger hands than I do because she’s addicted to wearing sunscreen on them. I’m not consistent with it, but maybe that will be my new year’s resolution.
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing – so ever since then, I don’t play video games any more.
Pomegranate juice has staying power. It’s not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted – and it’s a good addiction to have.
When we were starting out as a band, I was addicted to college radio.
I’m addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It’s irresistible.
I’m addicted to tattoos. I can’t stop; I love them.
We’re all addicted to sort of the habits of our lives. And we get stuck, and sometimes we’ll get stuck because we had traumas that we don’t want to remember.
Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
Ive always been horrifically addicted to sugar, to the point that if I had a box of Maltesers, Id be annoyed if I had to share them! I loved the high.
There’s a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads… and the pictures were so vivid.
I’m addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you’re used to having that high, you look for it in other things.
The one product I can’t live without is my mascara. I’m addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
We need to do a much better job when people are addicted to take them through treatment and recovery.
I am addicted to watching cookery shows.
I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I’m actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that’s really embarrassing.
I never tried Pokemon Go. I figured I’d get too addicted to it. I did play Pokemon Snap on Nintendo 64, so that window is closed for me.
I enjoy taking wickets more than most people can understand. I’m addicted to that feeling.
It’s fair to say I’m becoming addicted to endorphins.
I was a real sugar junkie. I don’t think I realised I was actually fully addicted to it.
Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.
I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they’re dead or alive.
I’m not looking for sympathy. If there’s other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them.
Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.
Some books I’ve kept because the binding is beautiful – I’m unlikely ever to read my grandmother’s copy of ‘The Life of Lord Nelson.’ I’m addicted to secondhand bookshops.
We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.
As a species, we’re addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either ‘this’ or ‘that’ – how much more uncomfortable that it may well be ‘the other’.
