Clean Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Shining, Grace

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• When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.

  Jason Gray

  Real, Grace, Glimpse

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• Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Water, People

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.4, Anchor

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• I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

  Lawrence Welk

  Nice, Women

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• One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.

  Doug Larson

  Nice, Chance, Heard

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• We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Struggle, Hands

  "Give Us the Ballot". Address delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (Call to Conscience), 1957.

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• Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

  Joanna Southcott

  Father, Anger, Night

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