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Rubbish Quotes

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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
Vivienne Westwood

Authors on Rubbish Quotes: Karl Pilkington Vivienne Westwood Jo Brand Isla Fisher Sophie McShera Charles Reznikoff Julie Andrews Eddie Izzard E. M. Forster Igor Levit Richard Branson Dmitry Pisarev Joanne Froggatt Ronald Biggs William Blake Mick Taylor Danny Dyer Norman Tebbit George Eliot Stephen Hawking Brian Froud Julio Iglesias Eddie Rickenbacker D. H. Lawrence Maisie Williams Richard Burton Douglas William Jerrold John Lennon Ricky Gervais Salman Rushdie Mike Leigh Agyness Deyn Khushwant Singh
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If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
Richard Burton

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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
Joseph Stalin

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Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.
Peter Paul Rubens

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If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!
Georgy Zhukov

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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
Salman Rushdie

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If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.
Strive Masiyiwa

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I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.
Nigel Farage

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Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law
Auberon Waugh

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An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert South

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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
E. M. Forster

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In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.
Anton Chekhov

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Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good
Dmitry Pisarev

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Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
Morley Safer

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There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.
Ronald Biggs

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I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
Allen Carr

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Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
Howard Carter

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Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God. All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.
Ricky Gervais

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Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.
Peter Kropotkin

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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
Eddie Rickenbacker

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Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
Annie Lennox

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What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
Stephen Hawking

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I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.
Tom Hollander

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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
Emile Zola

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Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.
J. Norman Collie

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The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.
Robert Anton Wilson

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If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.
Richard Branson

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When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish
Julio Iglesias

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Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.
Dean Keith Simonton

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Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very foolishly, on all sorts of trivialities and rubbish, and that only the bureaucrats, by first seizing it from them, will know how to spend it wisely.
Henry Hazlitt

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I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.
Brian Froud

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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
Freeman Dyson

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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
Vivienne Westwood

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Make good use of bad rubbish.
Elisabeth Beresford

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Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.
Harold Speed

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Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Rodman Philbrick

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My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
Robert Carlyle

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It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
Mike Leigh

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Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
Charles Reznikoff

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Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.
Louis Dudek

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Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.
Rajneesh

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Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
George Eliot

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It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
Ai Weiwei

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No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.
John Muir

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I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.
Isla Fisher

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Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
Josh Billings

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Cocaine made me talk forever. The most nonsensical rubbish that you could ever think of.
Elton John

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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
Maisie Williams

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As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
Julie Andrews

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I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.
Karl Pilkington