Clean Quotes - Page 18

Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mind, Unnecessary Things, Sweeping

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Apologized for saying Barack Obama was clean and articulate.

Joe Biden

Barack

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Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

Sylvia Plath

Suicide, Choices, Doubt

Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Mark Twain

Clean Desk, Funny Business, Office Desk

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Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon themselves to compensate for the fact that they never clean the bathroom. A guy can walk into a bathroom containing a colony of commode fungus so advanced that it is registered to vote, but the guy would never dream of cleaning it, because he has to keep himself rested in case a Mechanical Emergency breaks out.

Dave Barry

Dream, Taken, Believe

Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

Aldo Leopold

Mind, Causes, Records

Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.168, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.

Peace Pilgrim

Spiritual, Hands, Wish

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.101, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty.

Price Pritchett

Dirty, Hands, Practice

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The customer deserves to receive exactly what we have promised to produce - a clean room, a hot cup of coffee, a nonporous casing, a trip to the moon on goassamer wings.

Phil Crosby

Coffee, Moon, Wings

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Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate.

Melanie Chisholm

Hate, Unnecessary, Slate

Song: You Will See, Album: Beautiful Intentions, 2005

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The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Dirty, Men, Soap

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I think if everyone is clean, then who cares about how you're tested?

Jeff Francoeur

Thinking, Who Cares, Ifs

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It was the shaving that bothered me the most. I'm not a great fan of shaving and I had to be really clean-shaven, hands, head, hairline, all the fluff off my face, everything except my eyebrows, so this sheen, this kind of polish they used on me, would stick.

Jude Law

Hands, Eyebrows, Fans

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Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

Ming-Dao Deng

Drinking, Heart, Exercise

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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I’m definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they’re like when you take their preferred substance away.

Natasha Lyonne

Heart, Coping Mechanisms, Self

"Natasha Lyonne, Locked Up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.

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Please clean up after your dogma.

Dan Barker

Dogma, Please

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When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about hunting, is it?" But when the human becomes animal, the effect is disgusting, and if we laugh at all, then it is what Beckett calls the "mirthless laugh", which laughs at that which is unhappy.

Simon Critchley

Animal, Hunting, Laughing

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This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.

Faith Hill

Beautiful, Home, Clothes

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If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

Nicholas Negroponte

Fire, Doors, Answers

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A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life.

Doug Larson

Empty Life, Garage, Basements

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As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

Gregory Nicotero

Numbers, Goal, Special

Source: collider.com

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Every note has to come out clean.

Carol Kaye

Notes

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O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.

Eugene H. Peterson

First Love, Blow, Dust

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In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

Russ Feingold

Successful, Needs, Maine

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I heard today that the White House isn't even backing its own bill, because Democrats on the Hill pushed back against it. So now what they're asking for is just a clean $4 billion to help deal with the crisis with no policy reform. And I think that contributes to people having less confidence in their government.

Dana Perino

Thinking, Government, White

"President Obama's passive policies". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters, Bob Beckel, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 21, 2014.

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