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Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.


Susan Cheever

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RACHEL GRIFFITHS Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
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AVERY BROOKS I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.
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GREGG ALLMAN This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the other...
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CHARLIE PUTH pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentalit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Under the influence, I am easily influenced. I try to keep my pants on, but some things are easier s...
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USHER My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA You hold substance in my psyche
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JUDE WATSON It encourages the use of a substance we think is harmful, ... It's a harmful, addictive substance.
DOUG MOORE What is your substance, whereof are you made,That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
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HAROLD S. GENEEN Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
AESOP Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow
AESOP What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is the best drug, bar none.
CRYSTAL WOODS Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
AESOP Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
AESOP The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g ...
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DONNA BRAZILE Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a f...
MICHAEL SPECTER Ensure that you have a tangible substance for the time you invested in goal-oriented activity
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RICHARD DREYFUSS There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?
JACK KEROUAC My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
VALERIE BERTINELLI A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.
MONICA BALDWIN The opposition would like to distract you because they can't win their campaign on substance,
CARLY FIORINA The body is the substance of the stone.
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JOSEPH CALIFANO He is all about substance, character and determination.
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ALAN KINGSMAN A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI The substance of an apology runs non-existing to the unforgiving.
IAN IJH HOWELL To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.
CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT Serve the Lord with what you have — your substance, strength, knowledge, and ability
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EULA BISS Without substance, the speech will perish,
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GIRDHAR JOSHI The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is percei...
LORD PUTTNAM I couldn't find anything of substance to it and then I just couldn't listen any more.
DAN DODD The Physicality of Man Is Irrelevant To A Seeker of Substance.
TYLER J. HEBERT Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substa...
UTPAL VAISHNAV The fundaments of a person are not in substance, but in spirits.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such...
KIM NOVAK You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
OSCAR ISAAC I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. ...
FRED DURST I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a boo...
MARILYN HACKER [Coping will also, in some cases, likely involve substance abuse counseling.] Substance abuse can go...
RICHARD HATCH The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know,...
PAUL KRUGMAN The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't...
MARK RUSSELL The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drai...
SUN TZU Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
DEE HOCK You find that you get addicted to the plants.
KAREN HILLSON Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwat...
BRIAN SKERRY Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.
MATT CARTWRIGHT The tone, tenor and substance of what you had to say is very different from what we heard before.
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STEVE WOZNIAK When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
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LOU HOLTZ The newspaper now accepts that all the allegations complained of are entirely untrue and without any...
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DONALD JUDD They say you have to exhibit physical withdrawal for it to be an addiction. But clearly, people will...
JOY BAUER Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's ver...
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SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
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SUSAN SONTAG The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists...
SUSAN SONTAG Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
SUSAN SONTAG What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w...
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