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• There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth, not starting your shower ten minutes in advance, not doing laundry until you have a full load. In this particular issue, education really is power.

  Kristen Bell

  Issues, Water, Choices

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• Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

  Lorrie Moore

  Forgiveness, Art, Confused

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Self-Help”, p.59, Vintage

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• Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower.

  Elayne Boosler

  Inspirational, Hair, Ems

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• It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Spinning Around, Clothes, Done

  "Lollapalooza Still Packs A Wallop". Boston Globe, July 04, 1997.

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• We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

  Don Henley

  Art, Kings, Dirty

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• The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

  Kathleen Norris

  Ordinary, Baking, Bread

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.15, Paulist Press

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• The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Dirty, Hands, Towels

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• I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

  Jenny Holzer

  Succeed, Clean, Loathe

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• If you've got a bloodstain on your T-shirt, maybe dirty laundry isn't your biggest problem.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Dirty, Problem, T Shirt

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• No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Jobs, Teaching, Cutting

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• I like to do things for my wife on Valentine's Day. I open the door for her when she puts laundry in the washing machine.

  Milton Berle

  Valentine, Doors, Wife

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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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• Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Noses, Willing

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• The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Girl, Stars, Giving

  Films Illustrated, May-June 1980.

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• Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intimacy, folding laundry together or sharing the feeding of a child can have more impact than the most extravagant bouquet.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Sex, Children, Impact

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• Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.

  Pia Zadora

  Mom, Kids, Years

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• I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.

  Josh Brolin

  Thinking, Littles, Amazing Things

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• I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

  Hugh Masekela

  Home, Goes On, Jokes

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• What happened to the alpha-wolf?" "LEGOs." "Legos?" It sounded Greek but I couldn't recall anything mythological with that name. Wasn't it an island? "He was carrying a load of laundry into the basement and tripped on the old set of LEGOs his kids left on the stairs. Broke two ribs and an ankle.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kids, Islands, Names

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.86, Penguin

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• What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

  John Green

  Lasts, Next, Dignity

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.142, Penguin

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• Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dirty, Argument, Vow

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• Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.

  Richard Peck

  Morning, Children, Book

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• I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

  Adam Rapp

  Dog, Fall, Writing

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• The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'

  Donald Miller

  Cute, Cat, Two

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• How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.

  Adam Sandler

  Nice, People, Guy

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