Trash Quotes

• To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

  Bill Nye

  People, World, Sometimes

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• The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Men, Years

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Pastures of Heaven”, p.42, Penguin

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• Trash has given us an appetite for art.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Appetite, Given

  Pauline Kael (1970). “Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969”, Marion Boyars

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• I guess if your heart's in the right place, the trash can go anywhere.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Heart, Right Place, Ifs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When someone throws trash on you, shake it off, stomp on it, and use it to rise to the top!

  John Hagee

  Use, Shakes

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• Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Cute, Cheating, Good Woman

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• Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Certainty Of Death, Two, Add

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• One man's trash is another man's girlfriend.

  Jerry Lawler

  Girlfriend, Men, Another Man

  Jerry Lawler (2003). “It's Good to Be the King... Sometimes”, World Wrestling Entertainment

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• You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.

  Caroline Manzo

  Smell, Garbage, Hanging Out

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• I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

  Eminem

  White, Glitter, Glamour

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• Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

  Elizabeth Kata

  Flower, Lovely, Grows

  Elizabeth Kata (1965). “A Patch Of Blue”

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• We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Special, Snowflake, Fight Club Book

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

  Sigmund Freud

  Thinking, Atheism, Experience

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

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• You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

  Charles de Lint

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.116, Macmillan

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• Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

  Charles de Lint

  Hurt, Thinking, Live Your Life

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• Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.

  Richard Roeper

  Equilibrium

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• It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

  Neal Shusterman

  Littering, Humans, Human Beings

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• To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Play, Safety

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Strong Opinions”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Reading, Garbage Cans

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2016

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• Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

  Scott Weiland

  Pigs, White, People

  Song: Divider, Album: 12 Bar Blues

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• I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

  Henny Youngman

  Taken, Men, Car

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  You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.

  Steve Spurrier

  Talking, Shoes, Trash Talk

  Steve Spurrier, Buddy Martin (2016). “Head Ball Coach”, p.274, Penguin

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• I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.

  Steve Spurrier

  Player, Two, Keys

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• I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

  Lil Wayne

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Smell

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• Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

  Dan Millman

  Live In The Moment, Mind, Use Of Knowledge

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