Plastic Quotes - Page 7

• I'm the Barbie, keep alotta plastic. Little pink stars, put em on my jacket.

  Nicki Minaj

  Stars, Barbie, Ems

  Song: 1234

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• It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.

  Richard Karn

  Paper, Recycling, Hard

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• Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.

  Richard Siken

  Forever, Moody, Susceptible

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• One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.

  Don Whillans

  Climbing, Needs, Looks

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• Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

  David Suzuki

  Environmental, Body, Embedded

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• You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

  Sally Jessy Raphael

  School, Glasses, Wind

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• Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

  Marion Woodman

  Love You, Passion, Broken

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• So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants: it is the same in mind.

  Ernest Holmes

  Confused, Thinking, People

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Guns, double-crosses, hitmen... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate,” Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. “Seriously. I'm not saying five-star... I'm saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars... any stars.

  Dennis Sharp

  Stars, Sleep, Gun

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• A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

  Joseph Devlin

  Children, Mind, Easy

  Joseph Devlin (2016). “How to Speak and Write Correctly”, p.91, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When I see vegan food sold in single-use plastic containers, I get frustrated knowing that plastic is not really recycled; it is down-cycled to less and less reusable grades, and too much of it eventually ends up in the ocean - where it kills animals. Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.

  Karen Dawn

  Ocean, Mean, Caring

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• So my husband is a health nut. He's a plastic surgeon, and over the years, he's explained to me exactly how important it is to take care of our bodies. It took me years to grasp this concept, but I finally got it, and it's a lifestyle for me now. When we go to a party, we eat off the veggie tray first before moving on.

  Dayna Devon

  Husband, Moving, Party

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• Unfortunately, most products are full of plastic and silicones and parabens and things that are really not good for us but they give that silky finish.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Giving, Products

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.

  Z'EV

  Player, Sound, Steel

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.

  Frank Fairfield

  Real, Mash Up, Race

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I was actually very surprised after using some plastic necklaces on the strings, as the sound was very bright. Sometimes I just put something inside that lies next to me.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Lying, Sound, Necklaces

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling.

  Mark Linkous

  Thinking, Feelings, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Fixed

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Damage, Advantage

  Source: bigthink.com

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• "Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

  Peter Drucker

  Gone, Moments, Periods

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• You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, Fda, Office

  "Romancing With Stone". Interview with Ruchel Louis Coetzee, www.newyou.com. March 14, 2014.

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• The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.

  Demetri Martin

  Knives, Perfect, Frustrated

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• In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Moon, Men, Energy

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.

  Brian Williams

  Fate, America, Decision

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• All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

  Carrie Fisher

  Teenage, Boys, Night

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