Styrofoam Quotes

• Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Paper, Milk, Jugs

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", June 15, 1991.

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• All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.

  Simon Sinek

  Giving, Ceramics, Roles

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.68, Penguin

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• You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Might

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• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.

  Robert Fulghum

  Death, White, Goldfish

  Gail Feinstein Forman, Robert Fulghum (1994). “It All Started in Kindergarten: Unforgettable Stories for Listening and Conversation”, Prentice Hall

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• Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

  Robert Fulghum

  Roots, Growth, Down And

  Gail Feinstein Forman, Robert Fulghum (1994). “It All Started in Kindergarten: Unforgettable Stories for Listening and Conversation”, Prentice Hall

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• If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Packs

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• Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.

  Kate Clinton

  President, Matter, Veins

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• They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam.
  All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo
  With the ugly Kardashian...
  Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.

  Eminem

  Sorry, Powerful, Rap

  Song: Berzerk

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• Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

  Kevin Bales

  Input, Today, Cups

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

  William Wegman

  Eyelashes, Rivers, Floating

  William Wegman, Frédéric Paul, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin (1993). “William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique”, Frac Limousin

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• This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

  Frank Ocean

  Unrequited Love, Men, Cyanide

  Song: Bad Religion, Album: Channel Orange, 2012

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• It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Couple, Heart, Humility

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• A Styrofoam egg carton caught his eye. He opened it and found a single silver orb with little blinking red lights. "This is cool, too!" He dropped it into his backpack. "Dan, no!" "What? They've got plenty of other stuff, and we need all the help we can get!" "It could be dangerous." "I hope so.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Light, Eggs

  Rick Riordan, James Dashner, Brandon Mull (2014). “The 39 Clues, Infinity Ring, and Spirit Animals Powerpack”, p.125, Scholastic Inc.

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