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• To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

  Emily Post

  Home, Men, House

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Crush, Hands, Able

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• Turn it over to the universe daily.. but it should never be a chore.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Should, Turns

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I have so much to learn when it comes to running. I just don't ever want it to feel like a chore. When I choose to sign up for a race or go out for a run, it's to make myself feel good, and I almost always do.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Race, Feel Good

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• Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

  Liya Kebede

  Helping Others, Helping, Greatest Gifts

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• There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Reality, Glasses

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• It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child
  discover that reading is a marvelous
  adventure rather than a chore.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Children, Reading, Adventure

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• I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other.

  Joshua

  Done, Killing, Enjoy

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• There's a stone I had made for Luke at the top of the hill road, where the pasture opens wide and the setting sun highlights the words carved into its face. "That'll do, Luke, that'll do." The words are said to working dogs all over the world when the chores are done and the flock is settled: "That'll do dog, come home now, your work is done." Luke's work is done too. He took my heart and ran with it, and he's running still, fast and strong, a piece of my heart bound up with his, forever.

  Patricia McConnell

  Running, Dog, Strong

  Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. (2009). “For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend”, p.249, Ballantine Books

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• I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, World, Earth

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.351, Best Books on

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• Over a year before I started recording Salad Days, so I finally sat down and was like I have to do this. And it did feel like a chore. I was looking at it in a completely wrong way, trying to one up myself. Just the typical sophomore album bullshit. The main thing I got out of it is I eventually gave up on all that stuff. I had to re-learn why I liked making music in the first place, why I liked recording in my room all the time. Because it's fun. It's fun for me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Fun, Years, Bullshit

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.

  Tom Hanks

  Running, People, Going Out

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's reading, or going to see a show or listening to a piece of music or cooking a meal that's in one of the stories, something practical, something kinesthetic that draws the reader in and helps them to experience the story for themselves. Those are all ways I think we can kind of come in the back door and help kids find the joy, as opposed to the chore or responsibility, of reading.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Reading, Kids, Responsibility

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Sunday blues often hit because the weekend was only about shopping and chores. If you can clear up some of that domestic detritus on weeknights, you might reclaim some time for what matters. Maybe the laundry can wait until Monday.

  Katrina Onstad

  Monday, Sunday, Weekend

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Cooking, Good Company, Calories

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category - humor, intelligence, creativity, and just plain entertainment value - ranks it somewhere between a bad infomercial and a local cable newscast. Rarely do I consider the act of seeing a movie to be a chore, but this kind of experience is the exception.

  James Berardinelli

  Creativity, Poor Quality, Mind

  "The Pest (1997)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Baby, Believe

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• Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Men, Thinking, Volunteer

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.'

  Michael Cudlitz

  Men, Roles, Gone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

  Adam Gopnik

  Attitude, Party, Thinking

  "Adam Gopnik on Food, Baseball, and The New Yorker". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

  Kay Boyle

  Duty, Difficult, Performing

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• When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

  Camilla Luddington

  Girl, Good Girl

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

  Stefanie Powers

  Climate, Routine, Bugs

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• I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

  Sonja Sohn

  Home, School, Miserable

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.

  Joel Silver

  Hard

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