Cleaning Quotes - Page 17

• When I go home, the first thing I do is wash the dishes. It feels real and it feels like home and it's humbling, it's something you don't do when you're living in a hotel, everyone cleaning up after you.

  V V Brown

  Real, Home, Firsts

  "V V Brown Tells How She Fights Homesickness!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2012.

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• It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Nuts, Democracy, Frustrating

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Needs, Mopping, Ifs

  "Saoirse Ronan: 200 years young". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2013.

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• I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.

  James Dyson

  Fans, Use, Want

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• My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, War, Book

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.

  Chris Hemsworth

  School, Interviews, Pumps

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• Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

  Demetri Martin

  Mind, Sponges, Handy

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Wizards, Efficiency, Operations

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• We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Should Have, Tasks, Purpose

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Jobs, Elderly, House

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• The mistake that was made in the '70s is we stopped policing the streets, we stopped cleaning the streets, we stopped cleaning the graffiti off buildings, we stopped supporting our cultural institutions and building parks and schools and all those kinds of things.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Mistake, School, Graffiti

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. September 21, 2008.

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• My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Sunday, Night, My Favorite

  Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

  Riane Eisler

  Long, People, Care

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• Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Home, Kids

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• I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

  Barack Obama

  Mind, Made, Folks

  "Obama urges GOP to ‘get a mop’ and clean up Bush administration mess". thehill.com. October 21, 2009.

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• The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Yoga, Buddhism

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• I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

  Harriet Harman

  Husband, House, Doe

  Evening Standard, p. 16, October 31, 2011.

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• Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm -- cutting hay, cleaning out stalls, or building a barn. You go do that and then come back to the writing.

  Sam Shepard

  Country, Horse, Writing

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• No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.

  Warren Farrell

  Home, Sleep, Wife

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.

  Tim Allen

  Life, Kids, Thinking

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• A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.

  Andre Maurois

  Morning, Done, Statesmen

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.161, SpiralPress

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• When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work.

  Barack Obama

  Laughter, Sitting, Want

  "Barack Obama, remarks at University of Michigan". www.politico.com. May 1, 2010.

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• It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Opposites, America, Interesting

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• Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie said. "Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water." "'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,'" Zia said. "You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don't you?

  Rick Riordan

  Army, Order, Cities

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.

  Kathryn Stockett

  World, Ovens, Worst

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.20, Penguin

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