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• I changed my diet drastically. In college, I was a typical college guy who ate junk food all the time. When you're in college, your metabolism is through the roof. I felt like my body started to change when I was 22 or 23, so I started meeting with a nutritionist and it completely changed everything.

  Jonathan Horton

  College, Guy, Body

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• I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

  Ethel Waters

  Causes

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• Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.

  Deniece Schofield

  Home, Law, Space

  Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an organized homemaker: the secrets of uncluttering your home and taking control of your life”

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• Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods.

  Marion Nestle

  Moving, Vegetables, Fruit

  Marion Nestle (2010). “What to Eat”, p.10, Macmillan

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• When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."

  Natalie Goldberg

  Attitude, Writing, Expectations

  Natalie Goldberg (2005). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• It is no more likely that our world has evolved out of chaos than that a hurricane, blowing through a junk yard, should create a Boeing.

  Fred Hoyle

  Our World, Yards, Boeing

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• What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"

  Jarvis Cocker

  Moving, People, Giants

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

  Ransom Riggs

  Growing Up, Kids, Florida

  Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

  Robert Atkins

  Sweet, School, Years

  "What the doctor ordered" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

  Robert Atkins

  Would Be, Junk Food, Ifs

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• Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.

  Roger Miller

  Holy Grail, Takeovers, Hostile

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• The Christos-image
  is most difficult to disentangle
  from its art-craft junk-shop
  paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
  of pain-worship and death-symbol.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

  Seth Lloyd

  Sex, Moving, Dna

  "Move Aside, Sex". The Edge Annual Question — 2010: "How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?", www.edge.org. 2010.

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• Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

  Diane Abbott

  Struggle, Information, Tides

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• Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

  Greil Marcus

  Fun, Rocks, Ideas

  Greil Marcus (2014). “Mystery Train”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That mind which does not live in gratitude is just like a junkyard. There are great cars there, but they don't work; they are useless, because they are junk. What are you without gratitude?

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Yoga

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• The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.

  Fred Hoyle

  Origin Of Life, Boeing 747, Yards

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• It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fashion, Quality, Too Much

  Rachel Zoe, Rose Apodaca (2008). “Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty, & Everything Glamour”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Compassion, Ecosystems, Trying

  "The Prayer Of The Body". Interview by Sy Safransky, thesunmagazine.org. October 1992.

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• There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.

  Dharma Mittra

  Moving, Yoga, Exercise

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• There's definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It's a nice gift, but there's a lot of wrapping and paper and junk to cut through. Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me. I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.

  Bill Murray

  Girl, Nice, Mean

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

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• Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Positive, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 22, 2013

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• Julian, sometimes girls are like junk food. They look good, and they sure taste good… but you know they're not healthy for you and cause cavities so it's better to just leave 'em alone. Got me?

  Simone Elkeles

  Girl, Healthy, Looks

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• A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Cutting, Sick

  "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict". Book by William S. Burroughs (published under the pseudonym William Lee), 1953.

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• I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish

  Jamie Oliver

  Powerful, Availability, People

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