#leaned

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#best #cleaned #give #give me #handout

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#cleaned #consumption #dirty #history #innocents

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. ↗

— Patti Smith

#changed #children #citizen #cleaned #diapers

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again! ↗

— Patsy Cline

#beautiful #cleaned #face #fancy #having

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#clocks #get #going #making #our

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#cleaned #drained #get #going #house

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car. ↗

— Abraham Zapruder

#bottom #car #down #falling #forward

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#cleaned #get #i #i do #important