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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

  Robert Moog

  Together, Sound, Remember

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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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• There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there

  Lloyd Bridges

  Ocean, Oil, Bigs

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• There's people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it's garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job

  Todd Barry

  Jobs, Fear, Fun

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• I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Men, Differences, Age

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• If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

  Lee Marvin

  Appeals, Fellows, Ifs

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

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• I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it -- garbage in, garbage out.

  Jerry Falwell

  Hurt, Pornography

  "Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 10, 1997.

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• In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

  Henry James

  Food, Cooking, Sprinkles

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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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• 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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• A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

  Vanna Bonta

  People, Vacuums

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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 think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Thinking, People, Giving

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

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

  Michael Caine

  Garbage Cans, America, Oscars

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• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  Owen Hart

  Art, Giving, Guy

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