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• I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

  Kevin Nealon

  Clever, Thinking, Games

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• I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Movie, Loyalty, Memories

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

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• But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

  Leonard Cohen

  Democracy, Junk, Bags

  Song: Democracy, Album: The Future, 1992

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• Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.

  April Winchell

  Thinking, Hands, Bags

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• It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Writing, Long, Okay

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• Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

  Jay-Z

  Garbage Cans, Waiting, Have Faith

  Song: Guns and Roses

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• If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

  Haruki Murakami

  Song, Radio, Hours

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.112, Random House

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• There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

  Bob Woodward

  Running, Smell, People

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• There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

  David R. Brower

  Environmental, Stores, Worn

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• In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.

  Tom Szaky

  Men, Ideas, Waste

  Tom Szaky (2013). “Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste”, p.70, Penguin

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• Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Speech, Way, Dump

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics

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• I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable into the regular garbage.

  Tom Sims

  Boys, Bad Boy, Heard

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• The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

  Peter Kreeft

  Animal, Civilization, Dying

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.11, Ignatius Press

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• When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because Raid really doesn't taste that bad.

  Janette Barber

  Funny Food, Dieting, Cookies

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• Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

  Grant Cardone

  Gossip, News, Quitting

  Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017

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• Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.

  Thom Yorke

  Kings, Raccoons, Fats

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• Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  People, Mind

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection. A lack of discipline is apparent these days in just about every aspect of American society. Why? This should be is a much larger question, one to ponder as we take out the garbage and tie our kids' shoes.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Kids, Shoes, Ties

  "Spoiled Rotten". www.newyorker.com. July 2, 2012.

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• We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Running, Hate, Writing

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• I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

  Lee Unkrich

  Kids, Thinking, Trying

  "‘Toy Story 3’ Filmmakers: This Is Not Kids’ Stuff". Interview with Steve Pond, www.thewrap.com. November 2, 2010.

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• The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump's henchmen, and I don't think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash.

  Ted Cruz

  Lying, Thinking, America

  "Carly Fiorina Jumps to Defend Ted Cruz From Daily Mail Reporter Who Is 'Dancing To Donald Trump's Tune'" by Tim Hains, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 29, 2016.

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• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.

  James Frey

  Dirty, Mushrooms, Want Something

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.153, Rutgers University Press

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• I think of the kids that live on top of garbage dumps, I think of the ways we could reach out to other countries, I think of certainly climate change. There's so much. The nighttime is that time, is it not?

  Rose McGowan

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.

  David Quammen

  Taken, Independent, Successful

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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