Plastic Quotes - Page 8

• Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

  Frank Muir

  Tea, Together, Sugar

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• For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Believe, Shopping, Glasses

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• Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

  Michael Merzenich

  Brain, Progress, Use

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• If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

  Brian Austin Green

  Looks, Able, Realizing

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• Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Home, Learning, Dark

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 18, 2011

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• I lent a friend of mine $10,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Looks, Surgery

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• I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it.

  Astor Piazzolla

  Believe, Looks, Should

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• Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

  Diane Johnson

  Travel, Thinking, Islands

  Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business. But I was a 34C when I was 17...They stay up when I wear a push-up bra. But if people could see me when I come home and take off my bra, how could they think these are fake?

  Tyra Banks

  Home, Thinking, People

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• Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Confusion

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• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Mother, Purple, Insane

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• Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.

  Charlie Trotter

  Nice, Way, Bags

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• I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.

  Gustave Moreau

  Art, Passion, Men

  "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierrep, translated by Bettina Wadia, p. 32, 1972.

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• We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

  Dennis Miller

  Sweet, Important, Needs

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.141, Main Street Books

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• It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

  Sam Mendes

  Beautiful, Character, Cutting

  "A Private, Interior Film". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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• No matter how much money you spend to make yourself beautiful - with all the products, the diets, the plastic surgery - in the end, women need to fall in love with themselves and realize they're wonderfully made.

  Jessica Simpson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Falling In Love

  "Jessica Simpson: 'I'm in a Great Place in My Life'". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. August 3, 2009.

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• If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

  Malala Yousafzai

  School, Years, Rivers

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• It was as if personality itself had a 'face'. This non-physical face of personality seemed to be the real key to personality change. It remained scarred, distorted, 'ugly' or inferior the person himself acted out this role in his behaviour regardless of the changes in physical appearance. If this 'face of personality' could be reconstructed, if old emotional scars could be removed, then the person himself changed, even without facial plastic surgery.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Emotional, Keys

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.4, Penguin

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• I see sad crushed plastic
  everywhere and put
  some thoughts composed
  of words that do not
  belong together
  together and feel
  a little digital hope.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Together, Littles, Digital

  Matthew Zapruder (2013). “Come on All You Ghosts”, p.15, Copper Canyon Press

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• I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Believe, Men, Getting Older

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• I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.

  Gwen Stefani

  Children, Vanity, Accepting

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• The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Truth, Unity, Purity

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• Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he generally found more there than a nameless and transient desire to acquire plastic trophies. He and Nubbins were not even in the same ball park.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Desire, Layers

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• The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.

  Paul Davies

  Information, Way, Study

  "The secret of life won't be cooked up in a chemistry lab" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2013.

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• Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

  David Suzuki

  Environmental, Body, Embedded

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