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• Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad fact that this person actually thinks he bringing some joy into your life. Somewhere he had a mother who sifted through a shoe box of mimeographed playbills, pouring herself another drink and wondering when her son would come to his senses and swallow some drain cleaner.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Son, Thinking

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• When it seems impossible that a deep connection with another person could just go away instead of changing form. It seems impossible that you will one day look up and say the words "I used to date someone who lived in that building," referring to a three-year relationship. As simple as if it was a pizza place that is now a dry cleaner's. It happens. Keep walking.

  Sloane Crosley

  Simple, Years, Going Away

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.132, Penguin

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• To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Book, Eye, Thinking

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.33, eBookIt.com

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• But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

  Dave Eggers

  Children, Cities, San Francisco

  Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

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• When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

  Ken Livingstone

  Years, Differences, Leader

  "Ken Livingstone praises 'visionary' Ed Miliband" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

  David J. C. MacKay

  Vacuums, Loud, Behinds

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• Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Choices, Psychology, Desire

  "4D Timelock". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

  Peter O'Toole

  Jobs, Tombstone, Blood

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• so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

  John Irving

  Mother, Party, Dirty

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• The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.

  Jim Butcher

  Home, Guy, Mustache

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.51, Penguin

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• Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

  T. Boone Pickens

  America, Fuel, Gasoline

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• Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

  Jon Meacham

  Hate, Dirty, Cutting

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• Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Needs, Reputation, Problem

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• I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

  Angie Harmon

  House, Horrible, Organized

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• I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

  Germaine Greer

  Fighting, Feminism, Vacuums

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• I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

  Noel Gallagher

  Believe, Doors, Lazy

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• Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.

  Sylvia Earle

  Taken, Thinking, Air

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• My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

  Bruce Dickinson

  Dad, World, Care

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

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• I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

  Jo Brand

  Wish, Woods, Like You

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• If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

  Chris Rock

  Rooms, Clean, Ifs

  "Chris Rock On Obama: ‘Being The First Black ANYTHING Sucks’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

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• Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

  Paul Ryan

  Business, Hair, Cities

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

  David Benioff

  Sleep, Insomnia, Skulls

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Amy adored both the new look and the new person it allowed her to be. Following the photo shoot, she wore her bruises to the dry cleaner and the grocery store. Most people nervously looked away, but on the rare occasions someone would ask what happened, my sister would smile as brightly as possible, saying, 'I'm in love. Can you believe it? I'm finally, totally in love, and I feel great.

  David Sedaris

  Believe, People, Looks

  David Sedaris (2009). “Me Talk Pretty One Day”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Dental Floss, Teeth

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• There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

  Daniel Handler

  Salmon, Meals, Yogurt

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