Plastic Quotes

• I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

  Buck Henry

  Future, Science, Want

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• Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

  Raymond Loewy

  Science, Civilization, Cities

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• Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

  Ray Davies

  Pain, Philosophy, Men

  Song: Plastic Man

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• There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

  Lily Tomlin

  Fun, Humorous, Skins

  "Fictional character: Judith Beasley". "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", 1981.

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• Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Behavior, Social Psychology, Humans

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• What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

  Jess C Scott

  Fake People, Inner Beauty, Ugly

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• The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Cutting, Hair, Knives

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Witty, Coffee

  "Eddie Izzard: Glorious". Video, www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

  Dave Barry

  Kissing, Cells, People

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• Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

  Tia Carrere

  Lasts, Minutes, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

  William James

  Giving, Realizing, Habit

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "Lady Gaga: Plastic Surgery Is ‘Promoting Insecurity", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.

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• I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Comedian, Wish

  "On Being Blonde" by P. Munier, (p. 84), 2004.

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• I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Laughing, Comedian

  "Cutup". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 31, 2008.

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• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Flower, Sunshine, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

  Lady Gaga

  Singers, Pops, Surgery

  "Lady Gaga: Plastic Surgery Is 'Promoting Insecurity'". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  Kate Winslet

  Real, Feel Better, People

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

  Marie Windsor

  Noses, Surgery, Prominent

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• I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

  Sheryl Crow

  People, Surgery, I Can

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• Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Graduation, Heart

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• Acting is about being real, being honest.

  Kate Winslet

  Real, Acting, Honest

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• Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Car, People, Fool

  "Karl Lagerfeld Gives His Best Quote About Plastic Surgery Yet" By Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Age, Looks, Attempting

  "Karl Lagerfeld Gives His Best Quote About Plastic Surgery Yet" By Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?

  Tyra Banks

  Hate, Insecure, Talking

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