Garbage Quotes

• Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

  Guy Debord

  Love, Funny, Humorous

  "Yes, too many of us are in pointless jobs - but don't despair" by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2015.

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• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  Imelda Marcos

  Funny, Stupid, Garbage Disposal

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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• She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" "No, jump in!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Yelling

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• If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.

  Groucho Marx

  Men, Want, Ifs

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• I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

  Robert Orben

  Love, Life, Family

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• I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

  Denzel Washington

  Men, Thinking, Long Ago

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• Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Sky, Bird, Clean

  "In The Studio With Roger Tory Peterson; Reluctant Earthling" by Lisa W. Foderaro, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1993.

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• My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, America, Guy

  Dan Marino, Marc Serota, Mark Vancil (1996). “Marino: on the record”, Collins Pub San Francisco

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• The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

  John Lee Hooker

  People, Choices, Radio

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• Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

  William Rathje

  Nature, Medicine, Environmental

  "The Atlantic Monthly" Magazine, December 1989.

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• When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Mother, Home, Stills

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• I see a lot of people who love their jobs.
  I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.

  Willie Stargell

  Smile, Sports, Jobs

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• My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Funny, Motivational, Beauty

  "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Transforming, Humans

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• 90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

  Patton Oswalt

  Art, Focus, Painting

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• Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

  Andy Rooney

  Waste, Literature, Paper

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.13, Random House

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• I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

  Beverly Sills

  Dine In, Caviar, Might

  "Caviar for Beverly Sills" by Susan Heller Anderson and Maurice Carroll, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1984.

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• I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

  Kevin Nealon

  Clever, Thinking, Games

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• It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

  Lauren Holly

  Home, People, Camping

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• I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Views, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Garbage Cans, Guy, Punk

  "Green Day: Keeping Their Edge". Book by Matt Doeden (p. 23), 2006.

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• The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Asking, Lawyer, Arise

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