Garbage Quotes - Page 15

• This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.

  R.K. Narayan

  Education, Roots, Office

  R. K. Narayan (2012). “The English Teacher”, p.328, Vintage

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• There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

  George W. Bush

  Men, Guy, Scary

  News Conference, May 21, 1999.

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• Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs,
  100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

  Jadakiss

  Weed, Song, Rap

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• Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

  Grandmaster Caz

  Rap, Past, Hip Hop

  "South Bronx Subway Rap". Song by Grandmaster Caz and Chris Stein, 1983.

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• I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Song, Weather, News

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• I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

  Tom Perrotta

  Summer, College, Men

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• Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity.

  Greg Gutfeld

  College, Addresses, Publicity

  "Greg Gutfeld's advice for grads". www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

  Kayla Mueller

  Sadness, Compassion, Gardener

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• As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and relationship conflicts.

  Michael J Cohen

  Real, Fall, Intelligent

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.84, Trafford Publishing

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• Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

  Fred Small

  Lying, Simple, Light

  "Environmental Songs". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.planetpatriot.net. April 18, 1997.

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• The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

  Michael J. Gelb

  People, Junk, Mediocrity

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.43, Dell

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• I really liked German food. And it's very clean.. It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well... the garbage.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Country, Waste, Kind

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

  George Carlin

  Television, Definitions, High Definition

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• In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that

  George Carlin

  Garbage Cans, Guy, Body

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand that we are not humane, we are not compassionate. It's the leftists and the liberals, they're the ones who are human and compassionate, but you'd better not get in their way.

  Ralph Raico

  Government, People, Libertarian

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• Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Media, Printing, Newspapers

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• I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth.

  Tom Scharpling

  People, Earth, Worst

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.

  Anne Truitt

  Children, War, Caring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation of man from material cares-and has become an obsessive image hanging over the present. Offered the choice of love or a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Country, Struggle, Men

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• Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

  Jessica Valenti

  Couple, Media, Garbage Cans

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• Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, Dark, People

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• Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.

  Gunter Grass

  Men, Long, Quests

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• I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

  John Chamberlain

  Art, Thinking, Junk

  "John Chamberlain, sculptor who used crushed-up cars, dies" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2011.

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• Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.

  Brent Runyon

  Thinking, Worry, Upset

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