Clean Quotes - Page 24

• I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.

  Frances Beinecke

  Believe, Thinking, Air

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• I will say this, though, in regards to laundry. I'll say, "Do you need to wear a new pair of jeans every day?" We've worked on this for the past year and he [Ashton Kutcher] now doesn't need to wear a clean pair of jeans every day. My laundry has gotten cut down immensely.

  Mila Kunis

  Cutting, Past, Years

  "Here's Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn's Advice For Every Husband". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2016.

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• You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Good Friend, Use

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Strong, Opportunity, People

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.

  Krishna Das

  Heart, Dark, Cells

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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• I love strong flavors too. Like I don't mind if it looks clean and clear and you know what you are eating if it has Italian, Chinese or Japanese flavor I love them all.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Strong, Italian, Chinese

  Source: seriesandtv.com

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• After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Air, Disease, Steps

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• Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Air, Cities, People

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• While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro).

  John B. Quigley

  Moving, Ambition, Mean

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• Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.

  Melinda Gates

  Differences, Water, Energy

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.

  Melinda Gates

  Rights, Self, Water

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

  Robin Lim

  Believe, Writing, House

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.

  Kevin Spacey

  Waiting, Energy, Crucial

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• Those of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity. We just magically thought this was all going to happen: we were going to have clean food, and organic this, and conscious that, and it just didn't happen.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Style, Musician, Groups

  "Born To Run". Book by Bruce Springsteen, 2009.

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• Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new partnership with the United Kingdom one day? All 27 Member States would have to agree to that. And the United Kingdom would first have to reflect on what it wants itself.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Divorce, One Day, Want

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I probably get it trimmed once every two months or so. I've just been going to the salon in the city, and they'll clean it up a bit.

  Noah Syndergaard

  Cities, Two, Months

  Source: www.gq.com

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• In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean the record, and you would only grab the record from the sides and you would carefully slide it into the jacket. I never had a velvet brush.

  Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

  Records, Sides, Slides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

  Erin Brockovich

  Children, Water, Risk

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• You should be able to drink a clean cup of water and you should be able to write your own name. That's the kind of stuff that holds dear to me, not I'm the best rapper. That doesn't matter to me. At that point it's all ego to me and I don't want to be driven by that and I try my best not to.

  Asher Roth

  Writing, Rapper, Names

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I'm the one candidate that can really stand up for what it is that the American people are really clamoring for. And that means jobs, an emergency jobs program. We call for the creation of 20 million jobs, to solve the emergency of climate change, and we call for 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2030.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Mean, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

  Oliver Stone

  Dirty, People, Theater

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean, well-lit theater, there's no reason why this cannot go on as a senior-citizen-driven business for years. Especially with movies for adults.

  Oliver Stone

  Senior, Years, Citizens

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No cheating, clean up your self-induced fear act, and replace it with what you love.

  Kathryn Budig

  Cheating, Self, What You Love

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• It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

  John Warren Kindt

  Country, Gambling, Years

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