Garbage Cans Quotes

• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  House, Important, Pieces

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.

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• Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love Is, Psychics, Rivers

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• That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Love, Taken, Eye

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• I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

  Patricia Briggs

  Dream, Frogs, Middle

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.137, Penguin

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• Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

  Jay-Z

  Waiting, Have Faith, Steak

  Song: Guns and Roses

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• The whole world is our dining room, but be careful: it is also our garbage can

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Dining, World, Rooms

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• Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Nhl, Feet

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• I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

  Ludacris

  Song, Years, People

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• January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

  Michael Caine

  America, Oscars, January

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Differences, Games

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• Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.

  Fred Brooks

  Jewels, Important, Crowns

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• My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once

  J. J. Johnson

  Teenager, My Boyfriend, My Best Friend

  J. J. Johnson (2015). “This Girl Is Different”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

  Max Lucado

  Life, Chapters, Your Future

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Will Carry You Through”, p.132, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

  Neil Young

  Song, Baby, Night

  Song: Rockin' In The Free World

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• Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.

  Shirley Temple

  World, Censorship, Modern

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, February 23, 2001.

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• I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Creativity, Names

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• In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Boys, Desks, Knocked Down

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'Talking'". Book edited by John W. Duffy, 2004.

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• Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Names, Numbers, Important

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• Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Nuisance, Video

  "E3 Interview: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. July 19, 2007.

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• I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

  Lil Wayne

  Believe, Smell, Dresses

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• Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Reading, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2016

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• When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

  Cyril Connolly

  Men, Years, Guilt

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• Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

  Jodi Picoult

  Details, Goes On, Dinner

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• I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Skills, Climbing, Self

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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