Plastic Bags Quotes

• It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

  Sam Mendes

  Beautiful, Character, Cutting

  "A Private, Interior Film". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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• I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Simple, Ice, Sauce

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• If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

  David Suzuki

  People, Friendly, Bags

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• Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

  David Suzuki

  Bags, Unnecessary, Plastic

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• We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

  David Suzuki

  Addiction, Bags, Use

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• No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bags, Problem, Enough

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

  David Suzuki

  People, Bags, Incentives

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• And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.

  Art Buchwald

  Nature, Men, Aluminum Cans

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• San Francisco is the only city in America where marijuana is legal but plastic bags are not.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, San Francisco, America

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• the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

  Shana Alexander

  Bags, Plastic, Metabolism

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Ocean, Fall

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting throught the wind, wanting to start again. Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin, like a house of cards, one blow from caving in.

  Katy Perry

  Blow, House Of Cards, Wind

  "Song: "Firework" (Album: "Teenage Dream")". 2010.

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• I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

  Helen Mirren

  Ocean, Water, Scare

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• Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.

  Charlie Trotter

  Nice, Way, Bags

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• How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

  Margaret Atwood

  Age, Bags, Mouths

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• I suppose I’ll have to clean up Freddy’s brains; I hate to leave a mess for the home owners. Hand me that plastic bag; I need to put it over his head to keep him from leaking. Oh, relax, Freddy; I’ll tear an airhole for you.” - Mercer

  Rachel Caine

  Hate, Home, Hands

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• That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality.

  Joel Salatin

  Responsibility, Technology, California

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• All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

  Marc Benioff

  School, Bags, Bottles

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  New York, Book, Bags

  "Venice star Jesse Eisenberg on fame, film and politics". Interview with Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. September 1, 2013.

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• The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

  James Buchan

  Philosophy, Political, Bags

  "Market failures". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, Office, Age

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• Oh...my...god,"Drew whimpered."Who..." Anubis ignored her (bless him for that) and held out his elbow for me - a sweet old-fashioned gesture. " May I have this dance?" "I suppose," I said,as non committally as I could. I looped my arm through his, and we left the Plastic Bags behind us, all of them muttering,"Oh my god! Oh my god!" No ,actually, I wanted to say. He's my amazingly hot boy god. Find your own.

  Rick Riordan

  Sweet, Boys, Anubis

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

  Gayle Forman

  Moving, Thinking, Wind

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• I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.

  John Green

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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