Cleaning Quotes - Page 5

• The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

  Karen Nussbaum

  Men, Unions, Faces

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• There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

  Anthea Turner

  Clean, Get Away

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• I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

  Michael Irvin

  Sports, People, Doubt

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• I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

  John Bercow

  Taken, Thinking, Records

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• When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

  Christopher Alexander

  Debris

  "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.

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• The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

  Roseanne Barr

  Funny Relationship, Worry, House

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• One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Two, Political

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Children, Home

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• Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.

  Monica Dickens

  Dog, Horse, Hate

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• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mean, Cells, Hands

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

  Bill Vaughan

  Smoking, Filling, Mischief

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• For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.

  Anthony Gregory

  Country, Religious, Believe

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• Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Dirty, Environment, Organized

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• And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

  Julia Quinn

  Tasks, Cleaning Up

  Julia Quinn (2009). “What Happens in London”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

  Scott Baio

  Mean, Doors, Car

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

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• They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

  Charles Barkley

  People, Black, Alabama

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• When I wasn’t working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop - always cleaning and vacuuming!

  Lea Michele

  Bats, Dresses, Mitzvah

  "Up Close & Personal With Lea Michele" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Trying, Life Is

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• Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

  Suzanne Collins

  Team, Hair, Skins

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.59, Scholastic Inc.

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• If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

  Phyllis Diller

  Doors, House, Enemy

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• TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.

  John C. McGinley

  Uncles, Dirty, Barbie

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So you can look me in the eye and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment?

  Matt Lauer

  Eye, President, Looks

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• Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

  Bill Pullman

  Jobs, Mean, Smell

  "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.

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• When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

  Aida Turturro

  House, Done, Broadway

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• If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

  Ronnie Barker

  Sides, Wealth, Window

  Ronnie Barker (2013). “Fork Handles: The Bery Vest of Ronnie Barker”, p.127, Random House

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