Cleaners Quotes - Page 9

• I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Strong, Kings, Father

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• CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Smell, Library, Carpet

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a floor cleaner and a dessert topping.

  Jane Curtin

  Dessert, Toppings

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• All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Dog, Art, War

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• As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Dishwashers, Gardener

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• My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Airplane, Grandmother, Impact

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• Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look like I've just watched a horror film on a rollercoaster. Kids love to scream. Frightened, happy, bored. They scream. I've actually learned to love the sound of a vacuum cleaner. It's just so peaceful.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kids, Bored, Peaceful

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.109, Crown Archetype

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• [Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

  Matt Damon

  Water, Toilets, Access

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.

  Britney Spears

  Funny, Vacuums, Fart

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• There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Jobs, Children, People

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• Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

  Marlo Thomas

  Ambition, Sticks, Energy

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• Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Intelligent, Attractive

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• I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

  Fay Weldon

  Dirty, Clothes, Redemption

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• I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Father, People

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• Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.

  Tony Evans

  Views, Etc, Hats

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• I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.

  Tony Evans

  Light, Differences, Long

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• Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Artist, People, Citizens

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.

  Francis Picabia

  Art, Taken, Men

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• Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

  Margaret Halsey

  Father, Sleep, Sound

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

  Margaret Halsey

  Missing, Belts, Has Beens

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

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• Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of economic growth.

  Nicholas Stern

  Country, Growth, Progress

  "Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict". www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2014.

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• As I go on in standup, I keep being described as cleaner and cleaner as I do each hour, they're like, 'It's unbelievable how clean,' 'He's the cleanest person in the world.' And then I'll do shows and people will be like, 'You're supposed to be so clean, but you're talking about cancer.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Cancer, Talking, People

  "Interview: Jim Gaffigan Talks Family, Food And Dad Is Fat". Interview with Samantha Abernethy, chicagoist.com. May 10, 2013.

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• When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

  Ashley Greene

  Mom, Jeans, Dry

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• It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.

  Maureen Daly

  Morning, Alive, Odd

  Maureen Daly (2010). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by necessity such as baskets and pottery, or artistic expression, such as more baskets and more pottery. Today, there is a much more leisurely attitude toward crafting, and virtually anyone without a job and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.

  Amy Sedaris

  Jobs, Attitude, Skills

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