Garbage Quotes

• Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

  Guy Debord

  Love, Funny, Humorous

  "Yes, too many of us are in pointless jobs - but don't despair" by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2015.

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• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  Imelda Marcos

  Funny, Stupid, Garbage Disposal

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

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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

  Mark Twain

  Communication, Data, Project Management

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• I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Deserve

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• The source is knowledge. Wanna go to college, or wanna be garbage?

  Big Daddy Kane

  Education, College, Source

  Song: Rap Summary

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• If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.

  Groucho Marx

  Men, Want, Ifs

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• Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mind, Devil, Use

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• A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

  R. L. Stine

  Morning, Real, Sound

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

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• Sometimes if you talk trash, you end up taking out the garbage.

  Len Elmore

  Sometimes, Trash, Ends

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• I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

  Lee Grant

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Garbage Cans, House, Important

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.

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• She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" "No, jump in!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Yelling

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• Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

  William Rathje

  Nature, Medicine, Environmental

  "The Atlantic Monthly" Magazine, December 1989.

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• I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

  Denzel Washington

  Men, Thinking, Long Ago

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• The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

  Robert Orben

  Love, Life, Family

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• My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

  Dan Marino

  Sports, America, Guy

  Dan Marino, Marc Serota, Mark Vancil (1996). “Marino: on the record”, Collins Pub San Francisco

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• Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Sky, Bird, Clean

  "In The Studio With Roger Tory Peterson; Reluctant Earthling" by Lisa W. Foderaro, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1993.

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• The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

  John Lee Hooker

  People, Choices, Radio

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• My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

  Vanna Bonta

  People, Vacuums

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• If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Funny, Motivational, Beauty

  "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.

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• The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Asking, Lawyer, Arise

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