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• If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, People, Tourists

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Weed, Mean, Alcohol

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.50, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Privacy, Socialism, Communism

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Inspiring, Energy, Degrees

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• Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

  Harry Reid

  Senior, Real, Stupid

  "Reid: Save the Postal Service, seniors depend on junk mail", www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.

  Esther Dyson

  Filters, Online, Shakes

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• Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Pain, Animal

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• I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.

  Arman

  Art, Our World, Long

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• There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.

  Philip K. Dick

  Weed, Beer, Wind

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• I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.

  Mika

  Insane, Pieces, Reason

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• You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Language, Banquets

  "Robertson Davies: Man of Myth". Book by Judith Skelton Grant, 1978.

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• I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

  Douglas Adams

  Art, Thinking, Media

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm no perfect gymnast. I want to go out and eat junk food, or I maybe don't sleep as much as I should, or some days I'll leave the gym and think, "Maybe I should have worked a little harder. Maybe I'm not as tired as I need to be." Every day you push a little harder, eat a little better, maybe go to bed a little earlier.

  Jonathan Horton

  Tired, Sleep, Thinking

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• Literally as I walk into the studio I say, "God, hollow me of all my junk. Hollow me of my insecurity, my pride and my doubt. Make me hollow enough that you can breathe something through me that would turn eyes to you." And whether that's a song or a conversation you're going to have with a co-worker, or whatever you're facing, that's for everybody.

  TobyMac

  Song, Eye, Pride

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• Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

  Besse Cooper

  Hard Work, Mind Your Own Business, Way

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• If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

  Andy Stanley

  Real, Christian Inspirational, Feelings

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• I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

  Leonard Cohen

  Drunk, Bottles, Pawns

  Song: That Don't Make It Junk, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Jesus, Idols

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• Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Oil, America, Environmental

  "The Tar Sands Disaster". www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2013.

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• I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

  Timbaland

  Peaches, Cream

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• Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you are lucky you can rent yourself to it and get a job , and if you are sufficiently propagandized you may even buy some of the junk they produce and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Order, Giving

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• I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Thinking, Television, Empty

  Source: collider.com

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• Ignore the junk news - work on a worthwhile project, make a plan, or do something to enhance your life.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  News, Projects, Worthwhile

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.59, John Wiley & Sons

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• The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity and fewer people are going to walk away from the mortgages. That will save the from taking a loss on their junk mortgage loans.

  Michael Hudson

  Loss, People, House

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Mean, Simple, Leaving

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