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• At the other end of the room, Grandma had the lid up on Larry Lipinski. She was standing one foot on a folding chair, one foot on the edge of the casket, and she was taking pictures with a disposable camera.

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Feet, Cameras

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.112, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

  Alan Light

  Song, Mean, Idols

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  People, Lessons, Bears

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• Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

  Ray Bradbury

  Team, Reading, Home

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  True Friend, Stupid, Clothes

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Ockham's disposable razors

  James K. Morrow

  Razors

  "Towing Jehovah". Book by James K. Morrow, 1994.

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• America is a very venal place; everything has to be sold there. You can repackage your own s**t and sell it if it is marketed in the right way. The motivation is to sell. It's so illogical and strange to me. It's such a disposable culture and yet I feel comfortable being American.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Motivation, America, Way

  "Jim Jarmusch, our favourite film director, interview – by Ian Johnston". louderthanwar.com. January 3, 2011.

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• I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.

  Stanley Donwood

  Fall, Communication, Class

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's something very environmental about quality. We live in such a disposable society, but real style doesn't change that much.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  Real, Style, Environmental

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.

  Ed Droste

  Track, Albums, Easier

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Real love shouldn't be disposable.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Real, Real Love

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.500, Simon and Schuster

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• Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?

  Jean Sasson

  People, Mountain, World

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• We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way that we would be free.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Daughter, Children, Would Be

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• It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

  Chilly Gonzales

  Forever, Musician, Laptops

  "Daft Punk: Cover Story Outtakes" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2013.

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• We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

  David Mamet

  Excess, Doe, Income

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.8, Penguin

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• Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.

  Andrew Tudor

  War, Class, Battle

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• I always try and mix High Street finds into my looks. It really doesn't matter how much something costs, it's the way you wear it! Fashion is about self expression, having fun, and occasionally being a little disposable. I really enjoy lots of stores that are found at local shopping malls. French Connection, Zara, and Topshop always interpret the fashions direct from the catwalk at affordable prices. This playsuit from Hoss Intropia is delicate, super sexy, and has a lingerie feel. I'd throw on a super soft, chunky cardigan and a pair of flat gladiator sandals.

  Cat Deeley

  Sexy, Fashion, Fun

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• Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.

  Kaskade

  People, Twists, Way

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• The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

  Peter Dicken

  Finals, Income, Levels

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.475, SAGE

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• I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

  Daphne Guinness

  Clothings, Regard

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• Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Art, Careers, Organization

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• How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Elderly, People

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• I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.

  David Duchovny

  Real, Poop, Backyards

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• Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

  John W. Snow

  Success, Congratulations, Mean

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

  Neil Strauss

  Girlfriend, Facts, Paradox

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.154, Canongate Books

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