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

  Groucho Marx

  Men, Want, Ifs

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• You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.

  Caroline Manzo

  Smell, Trash, Hanging Out

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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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• The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

  Steven Berkoff

  Looks, Mainstream, Theater

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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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• Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.

  April Winchell

  Thinking, Hands, Bags

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

  David R. Brower

  Environmental, Stores, Worn

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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, Garbage Cans

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• Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

  Gerry Cooney

  Growing Up, Men, Winning

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

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• Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Transforming, Humans

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

  Bob Woodward

  Running, Smell, People

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