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• All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.

  Bryan Robson

  Drinking, Player, Not Good Enough

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• People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

  Daley Thompson

  Kids, Years, People

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• Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Add, Noble, Yoke

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• I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.

  Martin Rees

  Religious, Fighting, Thinking

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

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• With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying loose fruit and veg, choosing products with recyclable packaging, and avoiding individually wrapped portions - can have a big impact.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Simple, Impact, Buying

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• Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Past, Dust, Littles

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• Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Art, Writing

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• Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.

  J. Norman Collie

  Chemistry, Compounds, Puzzling

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• As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.

  Herman Melville

  Creativity, Light, Soul

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.327, Herman Melville

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• I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.

  Jo Brand

  Work Ethic, Looks, Saying No

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Careers, Stressed

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• I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

  Richard Burton

  Morning, Fog, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

  Robert Carlyle

  Dad, Financial, Aspect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Identity, Different, Mergers

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• I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

  Larry Hagman

  Reality, Thinking, Dallas

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• Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

  Annie Lennox

  Leaving, Flying, Public Speaking

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• My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

  Paul McCartney

  Dad, Musician, Bless

  "Paul McCartney Blows 'Kisses' To His Father's Era". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 29, 2012.

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• We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Needs, Waste

  "All around you is silence" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2003.

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• But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib." A what?" Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

  Douglas Adams

  Opposites, Missing, Bangs

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

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• There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.

  Betty Smith

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Struggle

  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn epigraph (1943)

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• He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.

  Colum McCann

  Tunnels, Light, Cities

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.

  Terry Pratchett

  Worst Enemy, Cities, Dying

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.

  Stephen Hawking

  Giants, World, Tortoises

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.7, Random House

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• I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

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• If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

  Jamie Oliver

  Nice, Food, Mean

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