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

  Albert Einstein

  Imagination, Needs, Bigs

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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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• A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

  George Will

  Thinking, Offering, Choices

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• The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

  Mark Bittman

  Hands, Allies, Meat

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• At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

  Ethel Merman

  Tables, Fleas, Firsts

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

  Pamela Anderson

  Relaxation, Upholstery, Buying

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• My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

  Colin Greenwood

  Hate, Pages, Site

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

  Aldrich Ames

  Weapons, Defeated, Unfair

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• This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Hate, Real, Reading

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• The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

  Victor Borge

  Jobs, Military, Essence

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• Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

  William S. Burroughs

  Needs, Fields, Landing

  "Character: Narrator". "Ah Pook Is Here", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  My Favorite, Rice Krispies, Regard

  International Herald Tribune, August 08, 1978.

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• Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.

  Rodney A. Smolla

  Political, News, Television

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• McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sports, Sarcastic, Cancer

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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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• I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Clothes, Want

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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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• Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Forever, Fleeting, Mail

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• Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.

  Kathy Ireland

  Positivity, Color, Age

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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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• 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 normally don't eat junk food.

  Martin Yan

  Junk Food

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