Recycling Quotes - Page 3

• What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Numbers, Burning, Wedding Invitation

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

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• But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

  Garrett Hardin

  Rights, Population, Calling

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

  David Korten

  Zero, Taken, Ecosystems

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• I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Childhood, Giants, Different

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• As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

  Tracey Ullman

  Funny, Witty, Funny Life

  Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

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• In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

  Barry Commoner

  Degradation, Substance, Provision

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• I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Leaving

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• Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

  Kathy Mattea

  Perfect, Chocolate, Sublime

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

  Richard Karn

  Paper, Plastic, Hard

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• Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Fashion, Past, Identity

  Jean Baudrillard (1993). “Symbolic Exchange and Death”, p.88, SAGE

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• Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cycling, Hands, Ties

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• I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me.

  Junior Johnson

  Smell, Woods, Heat

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• I much prefer the modern world.

  Keith Henson

  World, Modern, Modern World

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• I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

  Conrad Veidt

  Thinking, Order, Bohemian

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• I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe.

  Stacy London

  Shoes, Giving, Charity

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• Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. At the end of the Roman era, there was this whole move against togas, because that was the signifier of the Roman Empire. In the same way, the '60s were a reaction against the '50s and so on. But now we've been feeding on a sort of cadaver. At the moment, we're just endlessly recycling the past.

  Daphne Guinness

  Fashion, Moving, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Views, Environment, Pleasure

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.

  Micah Lexier

  Cutting, Knives, Thursday

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Writing, Past, Done

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.

  Neil Cross

  Hate, Law, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.

  Christian Marclay

  Past, Ideas, People

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• When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

  Frank A. Clark

  Men

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• I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

  Tishuan Scott

  Agriculture, Wish, Majors

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Others may dispute this, we have tried to keep that sense of experimentation and putting new people up alive. And we haven't become a show, where we're like, "We know the 20 comics who are good and we're just going to keep on recycling them."

  Scott Aukerman

  People, Alive, May

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

  Rainn Wilson

  Swans, Dresses, Saws

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