Recycling Quotes - Page 5

• Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in my bag every few yards. It was terribly distracting, but I managed to avoid running into the Dumpsters and recycling bins.

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Clothes, Together

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• The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Family, Children, Kids

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• I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

  Richard Briers

  Theatre, Tvs, Well Known

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• Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Procedures, Method

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Character, Thinking, Novelists

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• The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining prosperity in a world of limited resources.

  Eugene Odum

  Men, Keys, Oasis

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• The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

  John Henry Holland

  Agents, Action, Behavior

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fashion, Aunt, Ideas

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Soup Kitchens, Self, Volunteer

  "Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.

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• My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

  Joe Mande

  Team, School, Black

  "10 Comics to Watch: Joe Mande Q&A". Interview with Daniel Lehman, www.backstage.com. July 9, 2012.

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• O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.

  Derrick Williams

  Giving, Desire, Passionate

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• In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Past, Zest

  "A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece". Review of "The Moon in the Gutter" on September 19, 1983. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 48, 1985.

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• In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

  Bonnie Wright

  Stuff, My Family, Ethical

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• Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

  Camille Paglia

  Compassion, Feminism, Doe

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.

  David Letterman

  Years, Earth Day, Example

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• It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.

  Steve Wozniak

  Zero, Believe, Recovery

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.

  Dennis Altman

  Wrath, Epidemics, Political

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• I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

  James Van Der Beek

  Light, Average, Energy

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• We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

  Van Jones

  Work, School, College

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• I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Class, Week, Spending

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• One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

  Fay Weldon

  Believe, Kind

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.

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• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  Barnett Newman

  Art, Expression, Leaving

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• I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.

  Rick Danko

  Ink, Soybeans

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• They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Tea Leaves, Attention, Littles

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• Do one thing every day that scares you... Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own... Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

  Mary Schmich

  Thinking, Past, Fishing

  "The greatest commencement speech ever" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2014.

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