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  • Your Cans must always be bigger than your can NOTS! -- Greg Gilbert
  • Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale. -- Claes Oldenburg
  • Labels are for cans, not people. -- Anthony Rapp
  • I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits? -- Marla Gibbs
  • I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food. -- Dwight Yoakam
  • Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. -- Missy Elliott
  • I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box. -- Ludacris
  • I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. -- Charlie Sheen
  • Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. -- Jerry Leiber
  • We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans. -- Cary Grant
  • I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me. -- Sean Maguire
  • I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities. -- Lou Reed
  • When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying. -- Harmon Killebrew
  • 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. -- Maiara Walsh
  • The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. -- Mary Antin
  • I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes. -- Jamie Oliver
  • We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very little importance in getting us there. -- Alex Steffen
  • I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle. -- Richard Grieco
  • I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs. -- Teri Hatcher
  • It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. -- Camille Paglia
  • Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. -- Bono
  • Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us. -- Mark Bittman
  • In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled. -- Tristram Stuart
  • The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere. -- Kim Novak
  • Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. -- Amy Alcott
  • Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more. -- Kaley Cuoco
  • We're Mexi-cans not Mexi-can'ts. -- George Lopez
  • Success comes in cans, not can'ts. -- Brian Tracy
  • Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans. -- Arthur Caplan
  • Labels are for cans, not for people. -- Jared Leto
  • Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts. -- Michael Josephson
  • The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can. -- Kelly Corrigan
  • I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans. -- Steven Wright
  • If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it? -- Alan Hirsch
  • Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons. -- Edward Abbey
  • My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good. -- Dolly Parton
  • Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day. -- Carmen Electra
  • My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day! -- Eric Ripert
  • Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong. -- Trish Sie
  • Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go. -- Carew Papritz
  • Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • ...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. -- Lionel Shriver
  • Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth. -- Michael Ondaatje
  • There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint. -- Dean Young
  • I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy. -- Timbaland
  • Meat!" he said scornfully"I'm a vegetarian."You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him.Those are vegetables. -- Rick Riordan
  • Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. -- Fred Allen
  • Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY -- John Henrik Clarke
  • Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands. -- Jack Johnson
  • I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell. -- Patricia Briggs
  • Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian." You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him. Those are vegetables. -- Rick Riordan
  • Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans. -- Fred Brooks
  • There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30,000 feet as well ? -- Alex Morritt
  • the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion. -- Cecily von Ziegesar
  • You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge? -- David Letterman
  • I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house. -- Roseanne Barr
  • Unshaven dudes in hoodies and ski caps look so hip and cool, until they too close to a grocery cart full of dented cans... -- Dana Gould
  • There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating? -- Andy Rooney
  • If you want to keep your side dishes warmer than room temperature, consider buying a small steam table for the home, with the Sterno cans underneath. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work. -- Jack Kerouac
  • Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly. -- Edward Abbey
  • It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed. -- Conor Oberst
  • You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. "Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans. -- Cate Tiernan
  • What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans? -- Francesca Marciano
  • I don't tan on my upper thighs, so when I first wore those [ cut-off jean short shorts] I look like I was walking on two cans of milk. -- Blake Jenner
  • There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans. -- George W. Bush
  • Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it! -- Michael Korda
  • I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me. -- Val Kilmer
  • To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up. -- Starhawk
  • All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room. -- Maria Conchita Alonso
  • James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol. -- Corita Kent
  • Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans." -- H. L. Mencken
  • I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down. -- Dar Williams
  • It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door. -- Gregory Corso
  • My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower. -- Jon Stewart
  • John D. Rockefeller was certainly the first to create a consumer product that was sold literally throughout the entire world. Those blue 5-gallon cans showed up in some of the remotest parts of the world. -- Charles R. Morris
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