Cleaning Quotes
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I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
Francois Truffaut
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The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
Steven Squyres
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Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
Wendy Wasserstein
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In the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.
Alan Weisman
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A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.
Mike Lowry
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I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.
Saoirse Ronan
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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
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Any job that allows me to use my pure water cleaning system and water fed pole is one I love. The wow factor for the customer after we New View Window Cleaning are done and they can't believe what we did with "just water and a brush" is something I never tire of.
Tony Evans
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I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.
Mike Scully
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Of course I have to clean my room and sometimes wash the dishes. And do a lot of other cleaning because my brothers, they leave a mess. But me too, me too. I have to admit I'm guilty of that, too.
Anthony Gonzalez
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And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.
Sarah Dessen
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I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.
Carlo Alban
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I would make up Theodor Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.
Judy Blume
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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
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.
Erma Bombeck
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We learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.
Brenda Shoshanna
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You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.
Ryan Adams
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Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.
Carol Browner