Clean Quotes - Page 23

• Do you clean yourself before you take a bath?

  Joseph Prince

  Baths

  Joseph Prince (2010). “Unmerited Favor: Your Supernatural Advantage for a Successful Life”, p.330, Charisma Media

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• I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficien cy and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future -- because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. And America must be that nation.

  Barack Obama

  America, Doubt, Energy

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

  Pearl Cleage

  School, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage". Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage, abcnews.go.com.

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• I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

  Bess Myerson

  People, Want, Privacy

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• You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

  Milos Forman

  Country, Sex, Years

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• A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

  Olive Schreiner

  Marriage, Beautiful, Love Is

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

  Greg LeMond

  Thinking, Years, Risk

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• They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

  Billy Gibbons

  Mirrors, Matter, Film

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• My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Beautiful, Italian, Simple

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• It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wisdom, Struggle, Writing

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• I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

  Rachel Bilson

  Clean Living

  Women's Health U.K Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2003.

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• I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.

  Steve Buyer

  Air, Support, Administration

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• We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

  Paul Arden

  Smell, People, Car

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• Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dad, Son, People

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

  Miroslav Volf

  Giving, Naked, Needs

  Miroslav Volf (2009). “Free of Charge”, p.74, Zondervan

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• A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

  Mark Lawrence

  Years, Age, Wipe

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.137, Penguin

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• Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.

  Margo Kingston

  Men, Leader, Good Man

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• There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.

  David Byrne

  Perfect, Temptation, Sound

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 22, 2008.

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• Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Doubt, Fields

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.10, Vintage

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• I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he's just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise.

  Richard Sherman

  Cutting, Thinking, Views

  "CNN Tonight", www.cnn.com. January 21, 2015.

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• I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Selfish, Dirty

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• The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran: But thou, my soul, let thy brave thoughts disdain So coarse a purchase: O be thou a fan To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain: Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires: Thou art Heav'n's tasker, and thy God requires The purest of thy flow'r, as well as of thy fires.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Men, Foolish Man

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.249

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• My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hands, Bloody, Prepared

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Giant”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Heart, Hands, Mountain

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.

  Pat Paulsen

  Wine, Eye, People

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