Catherine the Great Quotes

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving.

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

I've got an addiction to this game. An addiction to being perfect.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

Spending is an addiction.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.

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.