Plastic Quotes

• I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

  Buck Henry

  Future, Science, Want

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• The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.

  Paracelsus

  Animal, Men, Medicine

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• Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems suitable for mating'. And then there's the weird, culturally constructed definition of 'hot' which means, 'that individual is malnourished and has probably had plastic bags inserted into her breasts'. Like, I think if you went back to the 18th century and asked a 15-year-old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?' that 15-year-old boy would probably be like ... 'What's plastic?'

  John Green

  Mean, Thinking, Boys

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• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  Dan Buettner

  People, Meat, Celebration

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• I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Flower, People, Landscape

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• We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.

  Olive Schreiner

  Strong, Mean, Heart

  Olive Schreiner (1896). “The Story of an African Farm: A Novel”

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• I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind that you get to stir your to-go coffee. I picked up this habit from my husband, who loves to chew on things. His favorite chew-toy is a plastic pen top, and gnawed pen tops and little bits of plastic litter our apartment.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Husband, Coffee, Snacks

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• Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.

  Jason Wu

  Half, Percent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.

  William James

  Truth, Mean, Giving

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• I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

  Bob Dylan

  Motorcycle, Black, Way

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

  Alvin Toffler

  Ocean, Sea, Sky

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• It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.

  Bill Gates

  Light, People, Car

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• San Francisco is the only city in America where marijuana is legal but plastic bags are not.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, San Francisco, America

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• There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

  Lily Tomlin

  Fun, Humorous, Skins

  "Fictional character: Judith Beasley". "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", 1981.

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• Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

  Ray Davies

  Pain, Philosophy, Men

  Song: Plastic Man

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• Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Behavior, Social Psychology, Humans

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• I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

  Sheryl Crow

  People, Surgery, I Can

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• Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

  William James

  Giving, Realizing, Habit

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Comedian, Wish

  "On Being Blonde" by P. Munier, (p. 84), 2004.

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• I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Laughing, Comedian

  "Cutup". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 31, 2008.

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• If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

  Frances Conroy

  Botox, Mask, Surgery

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• I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

  Lady Gaga

  Singers, Pops, Surgery

  "Lady Gaga: Plastic Surgery Is 'Promoting Insecurity'". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

  Marie Windsor

  Noses, Surgery, Prominent

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