Al Sharpton

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

American Activist

Caterina Scorsone

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.

Canadian Actress

Mia Love

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

American Politician

Cory Booker

This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.

Alan Alda

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.

American Actor

Jen Lancaster

I married a man who isn't afraid to wash a dish, scrub a toilet, or have his unibrow waxed into submission by a licensed professional.

American Author

Sarah Harding

After a gig, even if I'm on tour and it's 3 A.M., I'll get in the shower and scrub my face, otherwise I'll have a spot the next day.

Richard M. Nixon

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

American President

Katie Price

I don't think I'm beautiful. I just think I can scrub up OK.

English Model

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Somehow, a scrubbed house spells a fresh start.

English Environmentalist

The act of scrubbing usually requires considerable physical effort or pressure.

Physical Effort

'Scrub' implies a thorough and often aggressive cleaning process, not just a light wash.

Intensive Cleaning

Scrub as plants are typical in arid, desert-like regions lacking moisture for tall vegetation.

Dry Lands

Using 'scrub' this way indicates an abrupt or unexpected termination of a plan.

Change of Plans

Describes someone with low ability, often as a playful or gentle insult among friends.

Skill Level

This usage of 'scrub' is informal and might not be understood in formal or professional settings.

Informal Context

A 'scrub' is specifically someone who directly assists during surgical procedures, not just any medical staff.

Specialized Role

A 'scrub' in this context is used in personal care to keep skin healthy and smooth.

Skincare Routine

Scrub is used in beauty to remove dead skin cells through exfoliation, not for cleaning dirt.

Exfoliation Purpose

 and didn’t like being burned, scrubbed, or polished. The monk and salesman laughed, both impressed by this honourable trickster. From that day on, the tanuki became an esteemed guest of the temple. He could frequently be found telling tales and performing tricks that amused even the most serious monks.

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 scrubbed off their painted blushes and I'm going to introduce you to their lives but before I do that I must tell you why I joined the circus in the first place because when I was young I wanted to be a trapeze artist but when we are little we are wiser than we will ever be as adults

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 Even now I don't have the words to thank him. "Just tell me when, and I'll have all the news channels present," he said. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves in a moment of devastation. I delivered the press statement, still wearing scrubs from the previous night.

Islamophobia killed my...

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 litter then you'll see them with the young ones and when I look at the small animals that I don't think they're good mothers this is one of them the scrub hairs do not do a very good job to raise their young ones looking began was that

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 So I got decked out in a pair of forest green scrubs, and I was laid on a gurney and wheeled into an fMRI machine. If you're unfamiliar with that technology, essentially, an fMRI machine is a big, tubular magnet

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 thorny devil we nominate the thorny devil as the lizard most in need of a spa treatment we mean the whole program sea salt scrub mud baths kelp wrap hydrotherapy and the world's longest deepest facial I

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 first-aid is the best first-aid that you can give this does not mean abandon your patient and forget about him what it means is do not tamper with the bite site no scrubbing or cleaning of the

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 different stages of rehabilitation starting with hands-on enrichment then to an outdoor pen and finally into an enclosure with thick scrub so they can get used to hiding in the undergrowth

Reintroducing The...

 and it's very ancient and unique kind of sad to leave it but looking forward to scrubbing up and getting back to normal life