Trash Quotes - Page 11

• ... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

  David Brooks

  Rivers, Trash Talk, Aspersion

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• Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Fiction, Existence, Quantity

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

  Marlon Brando

  America, Majority, Taste

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.

  Leslye Headland

  Couple, Writing, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

  Val Kilmer

  Thinking, Parent, Three

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• The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

  Lester Bangs

  Shining, Culture, Pieces

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.460, Anchor

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• A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Men, Punk, Trendy

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• If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Character, Three, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

  Fergie

  Workout, Crazy, Men

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• I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

  Carrie Underwood

  School, College, Volunteer

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• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Accountability, Dumb, Predictions

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• My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.

  James Ellroy

  Sexy, Mother, Father

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress, Writing, Pieces

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they had been, quote, "reduced to rubble," that's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander-in-chief.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

  Johnny Cash

  Death, Country, Heaven

  Song: Country Trash, Album: Any Old Wind That Blows, 1973

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• You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

  Rod Stewart

  Art, Media, Generations

  Song: You're Insane

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• A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

  Ray Bradbury

  Hilarious, Flames, Self Deprecating

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.291, Melville House

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• I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

  Tyson Gay

  Talking, Want, Motivated

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• Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

  Marilyn Manson

  Cake, White, Social Taboos

  Song: Everlasting Cocksucker

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• As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Class, Ku Klux Klan, White

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• Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.

  Van Jones

  Atmosphere, Yards, Ordinary

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The term "trash talk" is such an American thing. I still laugh at it.

  Conor McGregor

  Laughing, Trash Talk, Term

  "Conor McGregor On The Truth In Trash Talk, Custom Suits And His Knitting Circle". Interview With Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

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• Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

  Gene Weingarten

  Rhyming, Firsts, Idiot

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

  George Crabbe

  Pain, Powerful, Spring

  George Crabbe (1834). “The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834”, p.135

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