Junk famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
-- Adam McKay -
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.
-- Alex Garland -
There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.
-- Amy Lee -
I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.
-- Angie Stone -
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
-- Anita Baker -
In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
-- Avril Lavigne -
I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.
-- Besse Cooper -
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
-- Billy Joel -
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
-- Billy Joel -
Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
-- Brock Yates -
If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
-- Charles Bukowski -
If I dont get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.
-- Chris Abani -
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt -
My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.
-- Colin Greenwood -
Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
-- Dave Cutler -
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
-- Diane Abbott -
Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeedâ€-because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.
-- E. Lockhart -
Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.
-- Edward Hirsch -
I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.
-- Ellen Pompeo -
I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.
-- Erin Wasson -
At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
-- Ethel Merman -
I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
-- Felicia Day -
They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.
-- Gene Roddenberry -
I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. There's no inorganic food in my life these days. There's no junk food. There's not a lot of sugar. There's no soy. I mean, really everything that's going into my body is pretty pure.
-- Ginnifer Goodwin -
If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk....
-- Goldie Hawn -
Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.
-- Grace Paley -
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
-- Iris Murdoch -
I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever.
-- Isla Fisher -
If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.
-- Jack Gantos -
You put junk in, junk comes out. You put good in, good comes out.
-- Jack LaLanne -
You can exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can't eat perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes today; they are human garbage cans. They eat anything, but they exercise so hard they burn it up. But why not exercise and put the right fuel in too?
-- Jack LaLanne -
All athletes would be better if they eat better. Junk in equals Junk out.
-- Jack LaLanne -
Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?
-- James Lee Burke -
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
-- Jamie Oliver -
Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
-- Jamie Oliver -
I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum
-- Janet Evanovich -
Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside.
-- Janet Evanovich -
I don't care what you think, your junk does not have special abilities.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Ignore the junk news - work on a worthwhile project, make a plan, or do something to enhance your life.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.
-- Jeremy Grantham -
I love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy.
-- Jeremy Lin -
He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog.
-- Jim Croce -
Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.
-- Jim Rohn -
If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!
-- Joan Collins -
Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.
-- Joe Bob Briggs -
We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.
-- Joey Ramone -
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
-- John Chamberlain -
An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.
-- John Hockenberry -
It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you’re perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you’re perceived to be alluringly stupid.
-- Jon Ronson -
More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.
-- Jonathan Dee -
I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!
-- Jonathan Raban -
I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.
-- JWoww -
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.
-- Kurt Schwitters -
As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.
-- Leonard Cohen -
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
-- Lester R. Brown -
You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.
-- Louise Smith -
Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.
-- Mark Bittman -
The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.
-- Mark Bittman -
It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
-- Melvin Burgess -
Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.
-- Merton Miller -
Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
-- Michael Pollan -
I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.
-- Mika -
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
-- Neil Gaiman -
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
-- Paul McCartney -
Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.
-- Peter J. Carroll -
My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.
-- Preston Manning -
For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.
-- Raj Patel -
We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches itself to or underlies our masterpieces. We live in an amazing era when in spite of an absence of masters there is an explosion of masterpieces.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.
-- Sally Edwards -
Unhealthy diets and junk foods accumulate and eventually you'll die.
-- Seohyun -
In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
-- Sue Grafton -
I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.
-- Timbaland -
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
-- Tom Stoppard -
I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
-- Vanessa Marcil -
Eat for nutrition and food value. Emphasize natural foods, avoid processed foods and eliminate junk entirely.
-- Vince Gironda -
I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
-- William H. Macy -
The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
-- William S. Burroughs -
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
-- William S. Burroughs -
As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
-- William S. Burroughs -
You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk..
-- William S. Burroughs -
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
-- William S. Burroughs -
I usually eat anything I want. I'm not a big junk food guy, really.
-- Andre Reed -
You like all the junk pop cultural stuff. That's how you know who you are and what to wear and what you're like. But there's another MTV viewer who says you don't need to tell me what's cool. Just put it in front of me.
-- Judy McGrath -
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is beyond bad. It carves out its own category of godawfulness. And, please, you don't have to remind me that the original was a colossal hit ($700 million worldwide) and the sequel will probably do just as well. I know it's popular. So is junk food, and they both poison your insides and rot your brain.
-- Peter Travers -
I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette.
-- Arman -
The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities
-- David Loy -
Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.
-- Robert Atkins -
Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.
-- Rodney A. Smolla