Junk Quotes

• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Science, Imagination Creativity

  "Behavior-Based Robotics". Book by Ronald C. Arkin, 1998.

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• Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

  William S. Burroughs

  Drug, Clients, Cocaine

  Naked Lunch (1959)

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• To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

  Albert Einstein

  Imagination, Needs, Bigs

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• The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

  William S. Burroughs

  Doe, Clients, Simplify

  The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2, (p. 1), January 1957.

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• If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

  Goldie Hawn

  Body, Turns, Ifs

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• Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

  Paul McCartney

  Yards, Window, Shops

  Song: Junk, Album: McCartney

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• Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Forever, Fleeting, Mail

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• I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

  Roma Downey

  Girlfriend, Reading, Play

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• Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

  Stanley Tucci

  New York, Thinking, People

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• Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

  Billy Joel

  People, Junk Food, Satisfied

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• Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Differences, Treasure

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• It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

  Winona Ryder

  Sad, Cynical, Stories

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• Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

  Brock Yates

  Ties, Long, Might

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• Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

  Merton Miller

  Ties, Rating, Prove

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• I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.

  Gavin MacLeod

  War, Years, Play

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• I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Feet, Blonde

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• My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

  Steve Buscemi

  Humorous, Mean, Profound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

  Tom Stoppard

  Journalism, Responsible, Should

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

  Avril Lavigne

  Ice Cream, Sugar, Stuff

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• I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

  Vanessa Marcil

  Want, Junk Food

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• I normally don't eat junk food.

  Martin Yan

  Junk Food

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• I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

  Tyra Banks

  Positive, Food, Want

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• I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Thinking, Diets

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.15, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

  Sally Edwards

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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