Cleaning Quotes - Page 2

• At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

  Pete Rozelle

  Jobs, Hands, Clean

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• Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

  Ann Oakley

  Inspirational, Self, Possibility

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

  Willie Aames

  Stars, People, Looks

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• Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Winning, Immigration

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• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

  Agatha Christie

  Time, Book, Memorable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Block, Fire

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• It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sex, Dirty

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• I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

  Phyllis Diller

  Years, Use, Fit

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• The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

  William Dampier

  Morning, August, Land

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.114, tredition

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• I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

  Yul Brynner

  Nice, Cutting, Boys

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• I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.

  Scott Stapp

  Passion, Order, House

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• I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

  Josh Lucas

  Baby, House, Mind

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• The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

  Hernando Cortes

  Meals, Rooms, Dishes

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• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Government, Goal, Environmental

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• The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Running, Men, Ideas

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

  Megan Fox

  Clothes, Toilets, Forget

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

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• There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Two, Important

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• If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Order, Play, Done

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• Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

  Alan Shepard

  Morning, Airplane, Airports

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• No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

  John Mortimer

  Law, Common Sense, Nails

  A Voyage Round My Father act 1 (1971)

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• It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

  Julia Roberts

  Ideas, Giving, Looks

  "Julia Roberts: I’m A Hindu, I Don’t Believe In Botox". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2010.

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• And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

  John W. Snow

  Country, Energy, Coal

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

  Suze Orman

  Debt, Problem, Clutter

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• Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Respect, Bags, Paper

  Wendy Wasserstein (1978). “Uncommon Women and Others”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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