Plastic Quotes - Page 15

• We are in a code orange. Homeland Security said earlier today that everyone should have a roll of duct tape and plastic sheeting to protect your house in event of terrorist attacks. Who came up with this idea? MacGyver?

  Jay Leno

  Should Have, Ideas, Orange

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• I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

  Kyan Douglas

  Ideas, Feelings, Bathroom

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

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• The latest report is that Osama bin Laden has shaved his beard, is wearing Western clothes and has had plastic surgery. Isn't that amazing? The guy has made just two videos and he's already gone Hollywood.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Clothes, Guy

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• In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

  Judith Crist

  Television, Eras, Vitamins

  Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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• It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “The American Scholar”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.311, Penguin

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• Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.

  Rainn Wilson

  Believe, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• have you ever noticed how a man orders food at a fast-food drive-through window? ... men have an innate desire to be cute while placing their order through the drive-through microphone. It's as if they believe the invisible mike on the plastic menu screen is actually connected to a standup comedy stage somewhere in the recesses of the restaurant.

  Becky Freeman

  Cute, Believe, Men

  Becky Freeman, Becky Freeman Johnson (1996). “Marriage 911”, B & H Publishing Group

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• ... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Memories, Reality

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• One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Oil, Dollars, Lessons

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• All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

  Carrie Fisher

  Teenage, Boys, Night

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• You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.

  Francoise Gilot

  Art, Drama, Reality

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• Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or flying a plane, or having a nice steak, or drinking from a plastic bottle all contributed to the destruction of the environment - it's a bit complex, but music needs to pave the way for getting people to think about this kind of complexity. I'm just doing my share.

  DJ Spooky

  Nice, Drinking, Thinking

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

  Jack Dorsey

  Numbers, People, United States

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

  David Trumble

  Fashion, Giving, Mold

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• The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

  Clive James

  Butterfly, Fighting, Keys

  Clive James (2009). “Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James: Reliable Essays:The Best of Clive James”, p.164, Pan Macmillan

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• I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

  Jane Elliott

  Thinking, Play, Years

  "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

  Anthony de Mello

  Flower, Looks, Alive

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.101, Image

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• Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Dying, Saint

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• People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

  Judith Martin

  People, Manners, Doilies

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

  David Gerrold

  Hurt, Stars, Giving Up

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• What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

  Susanna Moodie

  Memories, Evil, Faithful

  Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.304, London : R. Bentley

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• Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Knowledge, Soul

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• I propose to provide proof... that just as always an alcoholic ferment, the yeast of beer, is found where sugar is converted into alcohol and carbonic acid, so always a special ferment, a lactic yeast, is found where sugar is transformed into lactic acid. And, furthermore, when any plastic nitrogenated substance is able to transform sugar into that acid, the reason is that it is a suitable nutrient for the growth of the [lactic] ferment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Beer, Alcohol, Growth

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• Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

  Norman Mailer

  New York, Cities, San Francisco

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.83, Random House

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