Toxic Quotes - Page 8

• Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow

  Gunter Pauli

  Water, Giving, Stuff

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• Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Fear Of Death, Therapy

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.

  Charlie Brooker

  Mean, Thinking, Space

  "'Black Mirror' Creator Dramatizes Our Worst Nightmares About Technology". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, weku.fm.

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• As a senator, I raised the alarm about sub prime mortgages. I fought to hold reckless manufacturers accountable for toxic toys and household products that threaten our kids. I introduced legislation to protect Americans' personal data and combat identity theft. So as president, I will make consumer protection a top priority across the entire government.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kids, Government, Data

  Source: time.com

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• I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.

  Decca Aitkenhead

  Thinking, Secret, Leaks

  "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.

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• Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.

  Robert Reich

  Wall, Believe, Government

  "Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is a Pending Disaster" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2015.

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• When a culture is not mythologically instructed, not instructed in story that gives us a call, then we start looking for quasi-stories, little toxic stories that keep our selves alerted and spared until we find another story.

  Jean Houston

  Self, Giving, Culture

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a song I had been covering before the show, so it was very dear to my heart.

  Melanie Martinez

  Song, Heart, Covering

  "Little Body Big Heart: Melanie Martinez from The Voice". Interview with Melanie Michaud, shopgraffitibeach.com. September 10, 2013.

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• The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short term conversation is a toxic cultural myth that robs guys of self-confidence and that holds them up to an unrealistic standard that they have to become a super-extraverted narcissist in order to 'score with women'

  Tucker Max

  Self Confidence, Order, Ideas

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• At this moment, glyphosate is the biggest threat. And because of its overuse, we are seeing the emergence of superweeds, which have grown resistant to glyphosate. This has led to biotech corporations developing even more toxic herbicides, including 2,4-D, one of the main components of Agent Orange.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Orange, Corporations, Agents

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Cancer, Technology, Thinking

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• The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

  Al Meyerhoff

  Reality, Environmental, Substance

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• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  Taylor Swift

  Looks, Toxic Relationship, Seeing

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• The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

  Sylvia Earle

  Enormous Quantities, Two, Oil

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Giving, Perfect, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Exercise, Stupidity, Everyday

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Cancer, Facts, Bones

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• The progressives have a challenge. Part of it is that you now have a lot of progressives who feel that 50 million, 60 million people voted to endorse the toxic parts of Donald Trump, that suddenly we now are in a country, you know, surrounded by people who, you know, are proud to be, you know, a part of this alt-right thing and they think it was an alt-right takeover.

  Van Jones

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The World Health Organization recently concluded that glyphosate, the main ingredient in the most-used herbicide on GMOs, is "possibly carcinogenic to humans." What's even scarier is that more than 3,200 elementary schools are within 1,000 feet of genetically modified corn or soybean fields. Drift is a very real thing in agricultural communities, so the proximity of these toxic substances to children is terrifying.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Children, Real, School

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• If you just say that, look at all the good stuff and you don't acknowledge the toxic stuff, you're wrong. If you're only looking at toxic stuff and don't recognize there's going to be some good stuff if you're for infrastructure or whatever, you're wrong.

  Van Jones

  Looks, Stuff, Infrastructure

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Reality, Differences, Knowing

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• If someone were to say, we should not letting Jews into the country, and people had a reaction against that, would that be the same thing as that kind of toxic political correctness tamping down honest discussion?

  Chris Hayes

  Country, People, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Our World, Joy

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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• Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.

  Majora Carter

  Color, People, Community

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