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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism, Name, Ready

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats

Nature, Human, Fire

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer

Head, Empty, Difficulty

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

Good, Logic, Gracious

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
Paul McCartney

Music, Dad, Him

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Norman Douglas

Work, Daily, Cheerful

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.
Tom Felton

Family, Money, Kids

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.
Tom Felton

Kids, Stuff, Clothes

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.
Sienna Miller

End, Lazy, Bored

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

Generation, Endless, Morons

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.
Jo Brand

Work, Saying, Actually

My paintings are rubbish.
David Bailey

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
Nick Cave

Love, Music, Art

During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
Milla Jovovich

Time, Evening, Everything

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.
Tim Vine

Coffee, Keep, Write

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
Carlos Ghosn

Time, Single, Saying

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
Harold Pinter

Birthday, Play, Second

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. Wilson

Taught, Finished, Personally

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.
Richard Burton

Morning, Done, Order

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
Larry Hagman

Reality, Nonsense, Watch

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

Life, Good, Dad

Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the 1967 borders is rubbish.
Conrad Black

Beyond, Boundaries, Israel

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
Conrad Black

Government, Enough, Rich

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Sometimes, House, Fill

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
Alan Cumming

Good, Here, Missing

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
Robertson Davies

Die, Sick, Year

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.
Richard Rogers

Beautiful, End, Down

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
Richard Burton

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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