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Quotes About Rubbish

When people claim that they know the formula or the pulse of the public... it's rubbish, the truth is that no one knows.
~ Rahul Roy
Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
~ Frank McCourt
If I have to read another cultural studies analysis of 'The Sopranos,' I give up. There's an awful lot of rubbish around masquerading as cultural studies.
~ Stuart Hall
Every person has the right to throw the home rubbish in the dustbin. Similarly, the mental rubbish through prose and poetry also can throw. We say that, too, as the freedom of writing and speech. The guilt is ours, why do we put our hands, in the trash.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.
~ Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
Foolish people have filled their head with so much rubbish things by oft watching media news and discussing its issues mainly politics that they can't actually differentiate between truth and lies & bad and nice person
~ Anuj Somany
On the face of it there is a pristine white sandy beach, but within an hour, around 100 of us can collect up to 250-300 kilos of rubbish. It's mostly bits of plastic, fishing line, nylon, bottle caps. We've found everything.
~ Ben Fogle
Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
~ Douglas Coupland
It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.
~ John Locke
Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish.
~ Dominic Cummings
hatred is like fire—it makes even light rubbish deadly.
~ George Eliot
The future is built on the rubbish of the past; wisdom lies in facing that fact, not in fighting against it.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He was a rather quirky worker, and he didn't really fit into the day-to-day business of GCHQ. But in terms of coming up with new ideas he was quite exceptional. You had to sort through some rubbish sometimes, but he was very innovative and always willing to challenge the orthodoxy.
~ Simon Singh
She looked like a mean newsreader." I put on an exaggerated TV voice. "Hello. This is the Mean News. You're all rubbish and I despise you.
~ Sophie Kinsella
On impulse, I go round the small clearing, picking up all the trash, working with a burst of energy. There isn't a rubbish bin, but I gather it together and put it next to a large rock. My life might be a mess, but I can clear a patch of land, at least.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Black is a very sentimental colour. You can hide any rubbish behind it.
~ ballard j g iii
I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.
~ Joanne Froggatt
Winston stopped writing, partly because he was suffering from cramp. He did not know what had made him pour out this stream of rubbish. But the curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, to the
~ George Orwell
It's nice to get home and do normal stuff. Put the rubbish out, do the school run - it means you stay grounded. I knew a horn player who was so used to being on the road that he became institutionalised; he could never adjust to being at home. I'm really glad I didn't let it get that far.
~ Lenny Henry
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
~ Ambrose Bierce
We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.
~ Eugene O'Neill
because the guy was oblivious, anyway, he was so into what he was doing: rooting through the ranks of rubbish, sorting it out, putting some on the central worktable, then moving some of that selected shit around, stacking it, arraying it, then circulating around the table and sizing the shitpile up, from different angles, with incendiary eyes ... ; and then, the next evening, I saw there was more shit, the guy must have been bringing it in...
~ Evan Dara
I try to cover three food groups at breakfast. I see that as a licence to eat rubbish for the rest of the day. Touring equals a lot of sandwiches.
~ Sarah Millican
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
~ Peter Shaffer