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  • I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

    Fashion   Hate   Fighting  
    "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.
  • My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  • A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

    Marine   Growing   May  
    Source: www.sas.org.uk
  • Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.

    Dream   Thinking   People  
    "RJ-11". Nicholas Negroponte's letter to WIRED Ventures Ltd., web.media.mit.edu. April 1, 1998.
  • Mooooon!” said the Ogre. “Tranquility …” Then he pointed at the full moon. “Neil Armstrong walked in a sea of Tranquility.” Then he added, “It’s made of cheese. But you have to take off the plastic before you put it on a burger.” Mickey sighed. “What’s his story?” the wraith asked. “He’s chocolate,” Mikey said.

    Moon   Sea   Chocolate  
    Neal Shusterman (2012). “Everfound”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
  • The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap plastic sandals. But a videotape released before September 11, which I saw on Lebanese television, had him in a gold embroidered robe. When I saw this, I thought, whoa, has this guy changed? I wouldn't have imagined him ever appearing in such golden robes when I met him.

    Simple   White   Guy  
    Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.
  • The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828)

  • I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

    Cutting   Years   Knives  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

    Singers   Plastic   Pops  
    "Lady Gaga: Plastic Surgery Is 'Promoting Insecurity'". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.
  • We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

    Space   Depth   Plastic  
    Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”
  • Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

    Sound   Tools   Machines  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.

  • Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

    Brain   Progress   Use  
  • When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

  • Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

    Men   Cells   Whales  
  • A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.

    Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.41, Macmillan
  • The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

    School   Boards   Roles  
    Edward Alsworth Ross (2009). “Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order”, p.168, Transaction Publishers
  • If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

  • Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.

    Faces   Plastic   Buried  
  • CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean hydrocarbons, such as synthetic gasoline. We can use CO2 to desalinate water, enhance the production of vegetables and fruit in greenhouses, carbonate our beverages and produce biofertilizers that enhance the productivity of the soil without poisoning it. Carbon negative technology is absolutely needed now.

    "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
  • For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album? ... The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn't approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there.

    Years   Issues   Albums  
    "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.
  • To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

    Fire   Wife   Botox  
  • SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary.

  • When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth.

    Use   Earth   Environment  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific.

    Ocean   Islands   Filters  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.

    Graham Norton (2011). “Ask Graham: He's Been Everywhere, He's Seen Everything. Now Graham Norton's Here to Solve Your Problems”, p.91, John Blake Publishing
  • Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical and spiritual needs...We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us.

  • Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

    Song: Little Plastic Castle, Album: Little Plastic Castle
  • When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

    Mom   School   Ideas  
  • In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

    Stephen Fry (2014). “The Hippopotamus”, p.13, Soho Press
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