Plastic Quotes - Page 19

• We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.

  David Sedaris

  Night, College, Drug

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I read somewhere that if you translated all the gadgets and technology in our houses to make our lives easier and save time, each of us would have the equivalent of 300 slaves, in Roman times. We have these incredible luxuries, incredible power and privileges, but we seem to be squandering them on little plastic spoons to stir our coffee with, that'll last two seconds in our lives.

  Herbert

  Coffee, Technology, Two

  Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

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• When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.

  Chip Giller

  Home, Car, Decision

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.

  Anne Fadiman

  Daughter, Baby, Philosophy

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

  William Faulkner

  World, Los Angeles, Loud

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• A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Flower, Empty Rooms, Desert

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• Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Christmas, Records, Pumps

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop”, p.104, Zondervan

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• Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

  Kevin Kelly

  Fire, Organization, Add

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• I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Ocean, Fall

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the chemical components leaching into our water and our bodies, we're going to be forced to look for alternatives to how we package goods and food.

  Edward Norton

  Water, Long, Important

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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• English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

  Ha Jin

  Language, Natural, Feels

  "The iPad Needs Norman Mailer, and The Paris Review" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.

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• I'm not a huge fan of plastic surgery, for either guys or girls.

  Blake Griffin

  Girl, Guy, Fans

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Veils, Surgery, Postmodern

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• I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Baby, Blood, Voice

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• I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

  Christian Serratos

  Cutting, Years, Knives

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

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• It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers. None of them seemed too concerned about the plastic realization of their music.

  Helene Grimaud

  Interesting, Priorities, Different

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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• The first day of training in Big Bear, it felt like somebody put a plastic bag over my head. After eight weeks up there, I feel very strong.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Strong, Eight, Training

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• No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bags, Problem, Enough

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Important, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Drama, Blow

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!

  Cate Blanchett

  Kids, Son, Knights

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how they want to present their music. From there I usually try to tell a story visually that complements the music, that lets the music be the hero element of the project. I just try to do something that feels sincere and creative and a little bit home-brewed so it doesn't feel too plastic or phony.

  Adria Petty

  Hero, Home, Responsibility

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.

  Edward Norton

  Interesting, Bags, Bottles

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Honestly, depending on what stage I'm at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I've never been against plastic surgery - I'm against bad plastic surgery. I'm against the overuse of plastic surgery.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Opinion, Stage, Surgery

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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