{"quotes":[{"text":"All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn’t be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.","author":"Hannah Harrington","tags":["beauty","face","fact","funny","girls","humor","makeup","plastic","society","truth"],"id":4291,"author_id":"Hannah+Harrington"},{"text":"Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains:When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it's over stretched beyond its limit point, it loses its elasticity and becomes plastic, and later cuts or breaks.As a leader, in your leadership disposition, it behoves of you to acquaint yourself with this very leadership principle that edges forward. It's however, a human nature to adopt to an environment, so, leaders are humans, they tend to have this rapore with their followers which is somewhat a must needed. But the ability for such one to return and recollect to knowing his boundary makes a good leader. A phenomenon whereby he becomes drunk of platitudes, then it comes to a time where they (followers) dictate for him. And even sought and suggest plans without his consent or knowing, it has gotten to the point of plastic and break respectively.","author":"Richmond Akhigbe","tags":["ability","acquaint","boundary","disposition","elastic","environment","followership","hooke","hooke-s-law","law","leadership","limit-point","material","phenomenon","plastic","platitudes","position","principle","rapore","stretched"],"id":72021,"author_id":"Richmond+Akhigbe"},{"text":"What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["celebrity","celebrity-culture","celebrity-gossip","celebutard","dark-humor","fake","fake-people","faking","humor","hype","inner-beauty","kim-kardashian","mainstream-media","plastic","plastic-surgery","prettiness","pretty","real-beauty","shallow-appearances","ugliness"],"id":103830,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order?We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails.","author":"Susan Freinkel","tags":["consumerism","environment","plastic","sustainability"],"id":128516,"author_id":"Susan+Freinkel"},{"text":"It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.","author":"Richard Karn","tags":["paper","plastic","hard "],"id":131429,"author_id":"Richard+Karn"},{"text":"You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["celebrity","celebrity-culture","celebrity-gossip","celebutard","dark-humor","fake","fake-people","faking","humor","inner-beauty","mainstream-media","marriage","plastic","prettiness","pretty","real-beauty","shallow-appearances","ugliness"],"id":233141,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic… asshole.","author":"George Carlin","tags":["comedy","extinction","global-warming","pale-blue-dot","perspective","plastic"],"id":238680,"author_id":"George+Carlin"},{"text":"My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless--a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["credit-card","identity","plastic","self"],"id":258045,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you’ll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["beauty","fake","fashion","gloss","magazine","makeup","photo","photograph","plastic","pretty","shallow","superficial","ugly"],"id":329984,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol??","author":"Amber J.","tags":["differences","elastic","elasticity","philosophy","plastic","recycling-bins","young-adult"],"id":334270,"author_id":"Amber+J."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}