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• During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.

  Milla Jovovich

  Appreciate, Gourmet, Meals

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• We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

  John Lennon

  Music, Writing, Theme

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• I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.

  Tim Vine

  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

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• I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Together, Buttons, Junk

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• Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.

  Ricky Gervais

  Real, Facts, Ridiculous

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2012

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• I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

  Nigel Farage

  Independence, Way, Alex

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• Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

  George Eliot

  Hate, Fire, Light

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.264, ShandonPress

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• I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Stories, I Can

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• It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

  Charles Darwin

  Life, Science, Thinking

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt (1999). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.278, Cambridge University Press

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• American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

  John Steinbeck

  Cities, Mountain, Use

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• There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

  Ade Edmondson

  Effectiveness, People, Doubt

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• Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good

  Dmitry Pisarev

  Broken, Nihilism, Break

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• He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Thinking, Doe

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Oil, Doe

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Angel, Character, Men

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.606, Library of America

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• This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

  Aleister Crowley

  Taken, Complaining, Rambling

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.149, Weiser Books

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• Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Children, Soul, Spirit

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• Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place. She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mother, Stupid, Believe

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.27, Chronicle Books

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• No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

  Betty Smith

  Sky, People, Tree

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• For we constantly deal with practical problems, with molders, contractors, derricks, stone-men, ropes, builders, scaffoldings, marble assistants, bronze-men, trucks, rubbish men, plasterers, and what-not else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Perseverance, Blue, Trying

  "The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens".

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• The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Teaching, Science

  Nature Discipline (p. 38)

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• The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stupid, People, Want

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• The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged.

  Thomas Paine

  Years, Religion, Church

  Thomas Paine (1820). “Appendix to the Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.57

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• It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce

  Mick Taylor

  Song, Couple, Had Enough

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• Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a bit of information that might make sense of something else, it taps you on the head and says, "Remember when you told me to put that memory in the green rubbish bin? Well, I didn't, I put it in the black recycling tub, and it's coming your way again.

  Melina Marchetta

  Memories, Believe, Funny Things

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