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

  Michael Irvin

  Sports, People, Doubt

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• Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action. The mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You dont live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim. Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Intelligent, Past

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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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• 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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• Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Children, Fire, Wind

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

  Monica Dickens

  Dog, Horse, Hate

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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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• 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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• As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful.

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Awful, Size, Responsible

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• Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, which is traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of its opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that 'women's work' is light and easy. Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid 'ancillary' jobs, such as cleaning, caring and catering, all traditionally considered to be 'women's work'.

  Eliza Bennett

  Jobs, Hard Work, Caring

  "This Artist Painstakingly Sews Her Incredible Art Into The Palms Of Her Own Hands" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. July 22, 2014.

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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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• I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.

  Cat Cora

  Cutting, Thinking, Knives

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• I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, Order, Knives

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• I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

  Jim Dale

  Clever, Laughing, Way

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

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• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  Larry David

  People, Rooms

  "Larry David: 'I'm cranky'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

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• As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

  Roz Chast

  Memories, Kids, Dust

  "The Dinner Diaries" by Roz Chast, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Spring, Moving, Want

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.11, HarperCollins Australia

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• I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Dog, Home, Stuff

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• As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Principles, Lines, Matter

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