Trash Quotes - Page 10

• ... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

  David Brooks

  Rivers, Trash Talk, Aspersion

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• The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out of me still, but it needed to all get out so I could trash those songs and put them in the bin. And then I was able to let the new songs out.

  Damien Rice

  Song, Writing, Feelings

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

  Margaret Cho

  Art, Literature, Sci Fi

  "INTERVIEW: Margaret Cho On Facing the Future and Chocolate Ice Cream". Interview with Christopher Margolin, thepoetryquestion.com. June 7, 2013.

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• My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries.

  Steve Olson

  Art, Self, Giving

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• Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Fiction, Existence, Quantity

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

  Marlon Brando

  America, Majority, Taste

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say "nihilism?" You'd be curious. What's underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?

  Eugene Mirman

  Eye, Dark, Ideas

  "Eugene Mirman picks the hottest Halloween costumes, from naughty rabbi to mayonnaise". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2015.

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• Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

  Fergie

  Workout, Crazy, Men

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• The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

  Lester Bangs

  Shining, Culture, Pieces

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.460, Anchor

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• All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.

  Ben Stiller

  Rumor, Gorgeous

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• I was a typical kid. I dug holes in the yard, threw rocks, had plum battles with the neighbours and used trash can lids as shields. I was always outside getting dirty.

  Arj Barker

  Dirty, Kids, Rocks

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• That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.

  Anthony Lane

  Book, Thinking, Want

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• There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

  Dolly Parton

  White, House, White Trash

  "Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Dolly Parton" by Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.

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• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Accountability, Dumb, Predictions

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• There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Effort, Sometimes

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.

  Tom Peters

  Jobs, Business, Competition

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• I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.

  George Jackson

  Song, War, Army

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

  John Sexton

  Photography, Tools, Photographer

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• When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.

  Jim Davis

  Cat

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• A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Eye, Editors

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• I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.

  David Mitchell

  Moving, Writing, Garden

  "Once upon a life" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Perfect, People

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• A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Men, Punk, Trendy

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• Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.

  John Locke

  Children, Men, Thinking

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Character, Three, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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