Quotes about crap
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Radio From Hell (November 1, 2006)

“But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”

Dick Cavett (1936) American talk show host

"Playboy Interview: Dick Cavett", Playboy, March 1971, vol. 18, no. 3, p. 70
Context: I don't think you could say now that ABC is crasser than the other two networks. But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. It becomes an ever-descending spiral.

People, Funny

“They new the old folk wisdom: what has been built might be really crap and therefore it doesn’t make any sense to dig it, for the smell could make the life really impossible. They regarded Gorbachev exactly that kind of a fool, who had broken the rule.”

Aleksandr Zinovyev (1922–2006) Russian writer

Katastroika (1988)

Life, Wisdom, Fools, Sense

“When I was in prison I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap. People shouldn't read that stuff. ”

Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer

People, Books, Reading

“It's the same story, over and over again! The same dependency, the same slugism, that we see mirrored all around us. Hated by the people, we build! Hated by the people we empower! Hated by the people we've given life to! How do you think God feels!?…they they think they're all in competition with me and all this crap. I'm not in competition with any of you people! I'm in competition with the Devil! I'm in a death battle! And now you see the enemy say they'rein a death battle, they know they're in a death battle, only the spirit, of knowing you're in a death battle will have you win! I don't know how all this is gonna end, but like I've told 'em a thousand times, you wanna fight, better believe you got one. You want to enslave my spirit, no! And I'll call on God to protect me, and use me however God sees fit. And if I'm destroyed my whole family with it, I don't blame God. I blame the stinkin' trash. Who will pay. Now. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. Tormented by their own spirit.”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

"Alex Jones is in a Death Battle" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5lGpU-OnAs, The Alex Jones Show, January 29, 2017. 2017

Life, Death, God, Hate

“We're turning into a bunch of self-centered walking dead trash,,, and we're such zombies! We're such self-centered crap that we don't even notice Hell itself rising up against us.”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

"we don't even notice hell itself rising up against us" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiiQjv8UfU, The Alex Jones Show, January 28, 2017. 2017

Hell, Self-confidence, Dead

“Most people who use Helvetica use it because it’s ubiquitous. It’s like going to McDonalds instead of thinking about food. Because it’s there, it’s on every street corner. So let’s eat crap, because it’s on the corner.”

Erik Spiekermann (1947) German typographer

People, Food, Thinking

“The thing about writing in America—and I just recently understood this—is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it’s the wrong thing. It’s not a profession. A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can’t do anything else, and then you have another job. I’m always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write about, and you only have something to write about if you do something. If you just sit there, and you’re a writer, you’re bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals. Writing is not a profession. It’s a calling. It’s almost holy…”

Jamaica Kincaid (1949) Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer

On her views of writing in “Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?” https://www.guernicamag.com/does-truth-have-a-tone/ in Guernica (2013 Jun 17)

School, Law, Success

“Do you think I’d roll over and spray crap out my ass and show my belly and piss on myself and bow down to you? You just summoned war. So get ready. And I’m just asking the Pentagon and the patriots that are left and 4Chan and 8Chan and Anonymous and anybody that’s a patriot. I am under attack. And if they bring me down, they’ll bring you down. I just have faith in you. I’m under attack. And I summon the meme war, I summon it all against the enemy. I will never sell out to these people.”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

Alex Jones Setup With Child Porn In Sandy Hook Case, Offers Reward https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=430&v=Z5RS-Mu5Vb8 The Alex Jones Show, June 14, 2019 2019

War, People, Faith, Thinking

“I will not be stopped. Because I get on my knees and beg for something particularly, I don’t get it. But I’m not in a coma, got that? I’m not in one. I’m going to stop that Nazi piece of crap, and you’re going to stop him, and he hates our guts. Well, we’re coming for you—you got it?”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

"Alex Jones Screams That Globalists Want To Murder The Midwest" https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=wZwH1ouVPKE, The Alex Jones Show, April 4 2018. 2018

Hate

“Gamblers need action, even when the odds suck. And so they return to the ships, night after night—the slot-machine ladies, clutching their plastic cups of quarters; the shouting, hard-drinking craps-table crowd; the roulette addicts, who truly believe, all evidence to the contrary, that there is something lucky about their birthdates; the blackjack loners, with their foolproof systems that don’t work—all of them eager to resume the inexorable process of transferring their cash to whoever owns the ship.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Source: Novels, Tricky Business (2002), Chapter 2

Drink, Relation ships, Night

“I can sculpt a birthday cake out of shit and insist that I obviously mean cake, that my real intent is to wish you a happy birthday, but my intentions and protestations cannot turn crap into a delicious dessert.”

Laura Penny (1975) Canadian journalist

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Seven, If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?, p. 212

Happiness, Birthday

“You read a lot of crap about photographic craftsmanship in those days, and technique; but you didnt hear shit about vision. I knew that I had an eye, a gift for seeing where the ripped edges of the world begin to peel away and something else shows through.”

Elizabeth Hand book Generation Loss

Source: Generation Loss (2007), Ch. 1

World, Reading

“All that crap, you're putting it in the paper? It's all been denied. Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. Good Christ! That's the most sickening thing I ever heard.”

John N. Mitchell (1913–1988) former US attorney general, Watergate felon

Quoted by : Katharine Graham Personal History, 22 July 1997, Alfred A. Knopf (via Google Books) https://books.google.com/books?id=jkxz77hC_48C&pg=PA465&dq=tit, The Watergate Watershed -- A Turning Point for a Nation and a Newspaper, Katharine Graham, January 28, 1997, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/graham.htm, [Bernstein, Carl, Woodward, Bob, All The President's Men, 1974, Simon and Schuster, New York, 105]

Christ

“We can do the innuendo,
We can dance and sing
And when it's said and done
We haven't told you a thing,
We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.”

Don Henley (1947) American singer, lyricist, producer and drummer

"Dirty Laundry"
Song lyrics, I Can't Stand Still, 1982

Singing, Dance

“Hell, I might be president now if it weren't for the fact I said I had an uncle who was a coal miner. Turns out I didn't have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean? I tried that crap — it didn't work.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart http://www.cc.com/video-clips/svsqnx/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-joe-biden () 2000s, 2004

Hell

“When was the last time anybody made a billion of anything safely and reliably? Never. Plants go offline, crap breaks, you can't find a part. There's a ton of things that can go wrong just on manufacturing”

Arthur Caplan (1950) American academic

a billion COVID-19 vaccines Source: Arthur Caplan (2020) cited in " This Is How We’ll Vaccinate the World Against COVID-19 https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/this-is-how-well-vaccinate-the-world-against-covid19" on IEEE Spectrum, 15 December 2020.

Time, Parting

“Mum said school mighta been different for me if I only give a damn. Maybe it was wasted on me like the teachers said. I didn't have any philosophy in me then, so I didn't know what to listen for. Most of it was pointless crap. Don't reckon I met a single wise person all the years I stayed but like I say, I wasn't paying close attention. And the thing is I miss it a bit. That's something I never thought I'd hear myself say. I didn't know what I was, what I could do. Except the lame things I did do.”

Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer

Part I, Ch.6 - p.43
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

School, Teachers, Personality