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• I saw a lot of lousy movies and watched a ton of crappy television and read a bunch of utterly forgettable books and comics and listened to hours of junk music as a kid. And I'm still drawing profitably in my own art on some of the tawdry treasure I stored up in those years.

  Michael Chabon

  Art, Book, Kids

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• When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.

  Donald Glover

  Brother, Stars, Wall

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• The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

  Alastair Campbell

  Political, Stories, Journalism

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• The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

  David Loy

  Mind, Identity, Needs

  David Loy (2010). “The World Is Made of Stories”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm thinking of a presidential bid; currently indexing and cross-referencing everyone I've tweeted my junk to. 8x10s available.

  Christopher Titus

  Thinking, Presidential, Referencing

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• Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth
  Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of
  those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for me.

  Steven Tyler

  Effort, Chocolate, Pockets

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• Education is something that should not be organized on a for-profit basis, because in that case its purpose is not really to provide an education. It's not to teach students how to get better work, but how to provide banks with a free giveaway opportunity from the government, by making junk loans that are defaulted on. The effect may be to wreck the futures of the graduates that fall for the false promises that are being made.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Opportunity, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The fact that you have government-guaranteed student loans has created a whole new sector in the American economy that didn't really exist before - private for-profit universities that sell junk degrees that don't help the students. They promise the students, "We'll help you get a better job. We'll arrange a loan so that you don't have to pay a penny for this education." Their pet bank gets them the government-guaranteed loan, and the student may get the junk degree, but doesn't get a job, so they don't pay the loan.

  Michael Hudson

  Jobs, Government, Pet

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't read all the junk. I joke if I did, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. But, Sometimes the comments over the top - really ugly. Many of them are critical of my looks, like the one that criticized my "thunder thighs." I get that a lot. Some of the tweets are too vulgar to repeat.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Morning, Bed, Looks

  Source: frankviola.org

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• 'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest greenhouse gas from their equations. How can such egregious calculation errors be so blatantly ignored? This is why man-made global warming is 'junk' science.

  Michael Myers

  Taken, Men, Errors

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• There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Junk Food

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• The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Needs, Body

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• At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Bullying, Writing, Mean

  Source: frankviola.org

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• I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay. I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food. We don't have a "no junk food" rule - I just want them to think about their choices.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Thinking, Pie

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Cougars are all the rage! I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture. That's when a woman's in her peak. That's when she's hot. She's already been through all of the junk. She's confident. Secure with who she is.

  Vivica Fox

  America, Hollywood, Hot

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you gradually add in nutrient-dense, fiber-rich foods, you simply stop feeling cravings. You run out of space in your belly for the old junk. Instead of craving, you feel full, fulfilled, and content.

  Kathy Freston

  Running, Space, Feelings

  Kathy Freston (2012). “The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Team, Addiction, Marketing

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

  Rihanna

  Hate, Vegetables, Salad

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• All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

  "Meet the new boss". Interview with Mark Hagen, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  Florence Welch

  Couple, Cutting, Bird

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• Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can’t touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick) Oh the horror. Guess I’ll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mind, Pieces, Might

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Infinity: Chronicles of Nick”, p.197, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

  Jonathan Raban

  Principles, Audacity, West

  Jonathan Raban (1981). “Old Glory, an American Voyage”, Simon & Schuster

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• God didn't make junk.

  Terry Cole-Whittaker

  Age, New Age

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• The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.

  Michael Crichton

  Poor Quality, Doors, Media

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

  Neil Postman

  News, Entertainment, Tvs

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.159, Penguin

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