Trash Quotes

• To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

  Bill Nye

  People, World, Sometimes

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• We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mind

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• In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Block, Fall

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• Trash has given us an appetite for art.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Appetite, Given

  Pauline Kael (1970). “Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969”, Marion Boyars

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• When someone throws trash on you, shake it off, stomp on it, and use it to rise to the top!

  John Hagee

  Use, Shakes

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• The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Men, Years

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Pastures of Heaven”, p.42, Penguin

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• I guess if your heart's in the right place, the trash can go anywhere.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Heart, Right Place, Ifs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.

  Caroline Manzo

  Smell, Garbage, Hanging Out

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• Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

  Elizabeth Kata

  Flower, Lovely, Grows

  Elizabeth Kata (1965). “A Patch Of Blue”

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• Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Culture, Treasure

  "Zen in the Art of Writing". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1992.

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• Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Cute, Cheating, Good Woman

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• Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Certainty Of Death, Two, Add

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• I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

  Andrew Jackson

  Receiving, Paper, Ruins

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• I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

  Eminem

  White, Glitter, Glamour

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• ...the first sign of civilization is always trash.

  Neal Shusterman

  Civilization, Firsts

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

  William Faulkner

  Mean, Stories, Crafts

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• This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Might, Absurd, Lost

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• Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Epic, Study

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• We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Special, Snowflake, Fight Club Book

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

  W. H. Auden

  Heart, Men, Errors

  "September 1, 1939" l. 59 (1939)

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• I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

  Sigmund Freud

  Thinking, Atheism, Experience

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

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• Genius is full of trash.

  Herman Melville

  Genius

  Herman Melville (2014). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II”, p.295, Trajectory Inc

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• One man's trash is another man's girlfriend.

  Jerry Lawler

  Girlfriend, Men, Another Man

  Jerry Lawler (2003). “It's Good to Be the King... Sometimes”, World Wrestling Entertainment

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• Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

  Charles de Lint

  Hurt, Thinking, Live Your Life

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• I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

  Bette Midler

  Tacky, Ease, Lasts

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