Rubbish Quotes
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. Wilson
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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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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Hanif Kureishi
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
Zubin Mehta
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I was rubbish at school.
Olivia Colman
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I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.
Alan Hansen
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When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
Cate Blanchett
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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
Kingsley Amis
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I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
Flannery O'Connor
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If nothing else, my analysis of George W.’s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.
Colin Cotterill
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Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.
Evelyn Waugh
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It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.
Norman Tebbit
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There may not be a great job for Aboriginal people but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.
Tony Abbott
