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• This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Mean, Past, Simple

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

  John Prescott

  Sick, Feelings, Chocolate

  John Prescott (2008). “Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches”

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• Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place. She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mother, Stupid, Believe

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.27, Chronicle Books

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• No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

  Betty Smith

  Sky, People, Tree

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

  Joely Richardson

  Successful, Years, Careers

  "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

  Morley Safer

  Pressure, Financial, Censorship

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• It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

  Mike Leigh

  Want, Life Is, Habit

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.

  Sophie McShera

  Hair, Dressing Up, Hats

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• Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Eye, Mind Freedom, People

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

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• Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a bit of information that might make sense of something else, it taps you on the head and says, "Remember when you told me to put that memory in the green rubbish bin? Well, I didn't, I put it in the black recycling tub, and it's coming your way again.

  Melina Marchetta

  Memories, Believe, Funny Things

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• Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

  Julia Quinn

  Husband, Violet, Rakes

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• Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Reading, Talking

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• The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

  Walter Moers

  Order, Needs, Paper

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• A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

  Agyness Deyn

  Stuff, Sometimes, Knows

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

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• Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Waste, Taught, Wasting Time

  Peter Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ), George Woodcock (1993). “Fields, factories, and workshops”, Consortium Book Sales & Dist

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• I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.

  Karl Pilkington

  Giving, Holding Back, Daft

  Source: www.geektown.co.uk

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• I once punched a bloke in the face for saying 'Hawk the Slayer' was rubbish, when what I should have said 'Dad, you're wrong.'

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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• Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new miracle drug, breakthrough surgical procedure or new organ transplant. What rubbish.

  Andrew Saul

  Medicine, Miracle, Drug

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.

  John Locke

  Lying, Learning, Ambition

  John Locke (1854). “The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary Essay and Notes by J. A. St. John”, p.121

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• It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

  John Locke

  Pain, Lying, Men

  John Locke (1727). “The Works of John Locke”, p.392

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• Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

  E. M. Forster

  Niece, Thinking, Anecdotes

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• It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

  John Locke

  Lying, Ambition, Littles

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.9

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• The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale.

  Helen Hayes

  Simple, Artist, Ideas

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.

  Danny Dyer

  Scare, Scripts, Firsts

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.

  Karl Pilkington

  Ifs

  Podcast Series 2. Episode 6 (On Sayings),

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