Cleaning Quotes - Page 18

• Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

  Riane Eisler

  Long, People, Care

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• After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Stuff, Housework

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• Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

  Jay Leno

  Government, Snakes, Swamps

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• Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

  Demetri Martin

  Mind, Sponges, Handy

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.

  Sarah Stillman

  War, People, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• Everywhere I've been, from South Africa to Brazil, people are connected to it. For me, art is a way to bring people together. You can put people on the same level, the perception is the same. You can bring a worker, like a cleaning guy, or the richest guy on earth, and they will have the same feeling or they would be able to feel the same.

  eL Seed

  Art, People, Guy

  "eL Seed’s New Home". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 28, 2016.

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• I think in certain ways sex work has been romanticized. I can only speak from my experience, but what surprised me about escorting was how boring it mostly is. it seemed like an assembly line process of cleaning my apartment, dressing up, making awkward small talk, having mundane mechanical sex, making more awkward small talk, and then closing the door after them. There's also a lot of frustration and annoyance with it that I feel isn't discussed (a lot of flaky potential clients for instance.)

  Marie Calloway

  Sex, Thinking, Frustration

  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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• 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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• It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Nuts, Democracy, Frustrating

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up quick.

  Rick Riordan

  Wakes You, Gloves, Rubber

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. March 5, 2009.

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• I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

  Joan Miro

  Example, Littles, Chance

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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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• I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

  Van Morrison

  Work, Men, Window

  Song: Cleaning Windows

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• Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Humorous, Night

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• I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Favorites Things, Toilets, Maids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.

  Rodney Brooks

  Simple, Hands, Common Sense

  "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans and Robots in the Economy". Council on Foreign Relations Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology, www.cfr.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I got famous in my 30s. I already had a real life and kids and responsibilities, like laundry and cleaning bathrooms. It's hard not be grounded when you have that. I think, if you get super-famous and everyone tells you you're wonderful when you're 12, it's probably a lot harder.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Real, Kids, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• With issues like our country's teen-age pregnancy rate, fashion's importance ranks right up there with cleaning your ears. Except right before going on television to talk about teen-age pregnancy rates, when all I can think of is what I'm going to wear.

  Jane Pratt

  Country, Fashion, Pregnancy

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• Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.

  Christine Lakin

  Laughter, Character, Kids

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• There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

  Corey Taylor

  Air, Dancing, Kitchen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.

  Ruth Wilson

  Interesting, Disorganized

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

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• In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

  Karl Kraus

  Running, Years, Consciousness

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

  Karl Kraus

  Music, Technology, Noise

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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