Clean Quotes - Page 39

• Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There's a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.

  Matt Damon

  Drinking, Reality, People

  "Actor Matt Damon's Clean Water Mission" by Imtiyaz Delawala and Cindy Smith, abcnews.go.com. November 27, 2011.

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• I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dirty, Talking, World

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• The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

  Billy Graham

  Israel, Miracle, Religion

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• All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

  John Keats

  Writing, Comfort, Comfortable

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 17 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins(ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 186

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• One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Looks, Needed

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

  George H. W. Bush

  Air, Environmental, Example

  Remarks Announcing Proposed Legislation to Amend the Clean Air Act, June 12, 1989.

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• Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

  Maya Angelou

  Fire

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

  Avi Arad

  Despair, Aviation, Get Up

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• Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hands, Judging Yourself, Judging Others

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• Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.

  Joel Spolsky

  Beer, Ugly, Coyotes

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• Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

  Sean Lennon

  Dirty, Water, Tone

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• Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

  Jo Nesbo

  Love, Individual, Steam

  Jo Nesbo (2014). “The Son”, p.505, Random House

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• I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.

  Robert Fulghum

  Religious, Work, Dirty

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• You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

  James A. Baldwin

  Writing, Goal, Want

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• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Air, Years

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• Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, Doors, Dust

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• If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there!

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Want, Environment

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• Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

  Eileen Caddy

  Empty Vessels, Tears, Flow

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• You don't have to be super clean to be a super star

  Ice Cube

  Stars, Super Star

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• For me accessories create and define a woman's personal style. The bag she carries, the watch on her wrist, her jewelry, her sunglasses, her shoes all define a look that is her signature. For Spring 2014, my accessory collections are about a clean, graphic boldness creating a new dimension redefining modern classics.

  Ralph Lauren

  Spring, Shoes, Creating

  FaceBook post by Ralph Lauren from Sep 14, 2013

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• There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

  Dan Wakefield

  Art, Appreciate, Silence

  Dan Wakefield (2010). “Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life”, p.11, Beech River Books

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• Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.

  Dr. Seuss

  Air, Giving, Water

  The Lorax (1971)

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• The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

  Martin Rees

  Commitment, Moon, Challenges

  Martin Rees (2011). “From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons”, p.60, Profile Books

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• The inspiration starts with the armor my parents collected. The references are subtle, whether in the mix of textures (woven, quilted, pleated) or in the tapestry brocades and florals. The focus is on clean, strong silhouettes with bold embellishments. Accessories reflect the mood - belts with chain details, lace-up ghillie heels and muffs.

  Tory Burch

  Strong, Inspiration, Focus

  FaceBook post by Tory Burch from Feb 12, 2014

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• A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Judging, Athletic

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics

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