Plumbing Quotes - Page 3

• I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Desire, Instinct

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• It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

  Brian Harvey

  Stars, Men, Thinking

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• The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

  James Doohan

  Easier, Drains, Scotty

  "Fictional character: Montgomery Scott". "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", 1984.

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• It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, Order, Law

  Congressional Record, vol. 107, p. 11703., June 29, 1961.

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• Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

  Iggy Pop

  Musical, Stuff, Sidelines

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• Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

  Stan Kelly-Bootle

  Computer, Computer Science

  Stan Kelly-Bootle (1995). “The Computer Contradictionary”, p.44, MIT Press

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• The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

  Lewis Black

  Generations, Want, Couches

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• The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and don't really listen to anybody else. Don't stand around with a bunch of writers and talk about writing. You know when you see plumbers at a plumbers convention, usually they're not talking about plumbing: they're talking about whatever it is that two men happen to talk about. They're talking about sports, their wives and children. I just tell my students, don't talk about writing too much, just go out and do it. Find out whatever you need to get to the mainland.

  James McBride

  Sports, Children, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My house got flooded in Los Angeles and completely ruined it. People asked how did your house flood on the hills in LA? It was a plumbing problem that the landlord didn't fix, so everything got ruined there. It's one of those things where you take the opportunity and run with it. My producers are here and we're working on the new album here, and I was here all of the time so it made sense to spend some time here, so we'll just see what happens. It's definitely very different.

  DJ Rap

  Running, Opportunity, People

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• I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

  Etgar Keret

  Block, Thinking, Expression

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.

  Daniel Lopatin

  Games, House, Behind The Scenes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.

  Rodney Clapp

  Appreciate, Desire, Benefits

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• I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.

  Carrie Fisher

  Girlfriend, Stuff, Complaining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on itself and think the thing we've got to do is fix our plumbing. The thing we've got to do is get new people in.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Artists talk about art in sort of straightforward terms, more like the way you talk about plumbing fixtures. Does it function well? Does it bring the hot water up from the cellar efficiently, or does it lose too much thermodynamic energy in the process? Artists are also very ruthless with each other and can be very brutal in evaluating each other's work because their criteria is almost more mechanistic. Does it do what it's supposed to be doing in an efficient way? That doesn't mean that intention is not part of the conversation, but it's not the foreground.

  David Salle

  Art, Mean, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jobs, Commitment, Intellectual

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• [Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

  Martin Nolan

  Special, President, Television

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• Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Character, Plot

  "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com.

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• It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Believe, Thinking, Anchors

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.

  Marcelo Claure

  Successful, Winning, Special

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

  Tom Peters

  Dream, Fun, Business

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.22, Vintage

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• I'm just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I'm not writing or playing guitar or on the microphone or out on the road, I'm cleaning pots and pans or freaking out about some plumbing issue or tweeting.

  Marc Maron

  Writing, Guitar, Issues

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.

  Bettina Arndt

  Husband, Home, Wife

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• I long to create something
  that can't be used to keep us passive:
  I want to write
  a script about plumbing, how every pipe
  is joined
  to every other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Knowledge, Writing, Long

  Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.405, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  S. Jay Olshansky

  Engineering, Water, Age

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