Cleaning Up Quotes - Page 3

• Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.

  Carol Browner

  Swimming, Fishing, Rivers

  "EPA says U.S. economy depends on clean water". www.cnn.com. June 9, 2000.

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• If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.

  John Lennon

  Jobs, People, Mind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.

  Mark Webber

  Hate, Cooking, Age

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• Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.

  Henry Rollins

  Talking, People, Trying

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!

  Denzel Washington

  Dog, Cat, Independent

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• My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

  Julia Roberts

  Home, Thinking, Order

  "Julia Roberts interview: 'I don't work a lot now that I'm a desperately fulfilled housewife'". www.mirror.co.uk. August 13, 2010.

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• Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Cancer, Waiting

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.45, Penguin Group

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• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  Patrick Stump

  Girlfriend, Home, Kids

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

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• I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.

  Charles Barkley

  Running, Real, War

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• Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make them more vivid. I used everything - every oddity I've ever seen on the side of the road, every interesting memory I could make relevant.

  Mary J. Miller

  Memories, Oddities, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, War, Book

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

  Harry Reid

  Responsibility, White, House

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• When I go home, the first thing I do is wash the dishes. It feels real and it feels like home and it's humbling, it's something you don't do when you're living in a hotel, everyone cleaning up after you.

  V V Brown

  Real, Home, Firsts

  "V V Brown Tells How She Fights Homesickness!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2012.

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• There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.

  Marianne Williamson

  Past, Forgiving, Looks

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• [David Milch] had say, "You have to understand that our history of western movies, what we've been doing in westerns since the movies began to talk, you had audiences that would be offended by certain things, and there was a cleaning-up of the way people spoke."

  Keith Carradine

  People, Would Be, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

  Barack Obama

  Mind, Cleaning, Made

  "Obama urges GOP to ‘get a mop’ and clean up Bush administration mess". thehill.com. October 21, 2009.

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• There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up." I haven't noticed a deity of any sort cleaning up our messes. We're going to have to do it ourselves, particularly since we have created most of these problems just by the genius and creativity that we've expressed and experienced here in this modern period. We've done it, and we've got to straighten it out.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Creativity, Deities, Genius

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Responsibility, Roles

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• Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Jobs, Couple, Women

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• After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Years, Cleaning, Hotel

  "Portrait of the artist: Rufus Wainwright, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Funny, Children, I Love My Kids

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• When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to do before. There's a change in the heart; there's a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with. As long as young people are asking, 'Can I get away with this?' or 'Can I get away with that?' I wonder if they're regenerate. If they're asking, instead, 'How can I grow in holiness?' then I suspect they've begun to understand.

  D. A. Carson

  Heart, Long, People

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• The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.

  Tammy Bruce

  Police, September 11, Complaining

  Tammy Bruce (2009). “The New American Revolution: How You Can Fight the Tyranny of the Left's Cultural and Moral Decay”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode.

  Rachel Cohn

  Drunk, Ponies, Firsts

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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