Parks Quotes - Page 16

• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  Paloma Faith

  Running, Hate, Rain

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• One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.

  Josh Gad

  Team, America, Top 10

  Interview with Christina Couch, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2011.

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• It's funny because The Book of Mormon is The Book of Mormon now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for South Park fans.

  Josh Gad

  Book, Years, Fans

  "Josh Gad and Jason Winer Talk 1600 PENN, Creating the White House Family Comedy, Improvisation During Filming and Viewers’ Perception of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

  Tony Hawk

  Cities, Individuality, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Running, Writing, People

  "Exclusive Interview with Bong Joon-ho" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 7, 2007.

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• The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

  Stephanie Klein

  Love Is, Amusement, Way

  "Moose: A Memoir". Book by Stephanie Klein, www.today.com. 2008.

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• I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nature, Past, Squares

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1963. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy", p. 817, 1963.

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• The national park is the best idea America ever had.

  James Bryce

  Nature, Ideas, America

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• Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

  Ray Davies

  Girl, Honesty, Jogging

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• I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod.

  Hoda Kotb

  Running, Mistake, Ipods

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• Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

  Gavin Newsom

  Cities, Tree, Benefits

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• I like English parks.

  Jean Nouvel

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• I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a Jurassic Park.

  Frances O'Connor

  Jurassic Park, Hollywood, Knows

  "Australia's latest export, Frances O'Connor" by Akin Ojumu, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2000.

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• My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Central Park, Favorite Places, Looks

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• When I got my job on Parks, it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn't think a job that excellent could exist for me.

  Nick Offerman

  Jobs, Thinking, Kind

  "Parks and Recreation's' Nick Offerman on Mustaches and Being Tackled by Robin Givens (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 15, 2011.

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• My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks.

  Hunter Parrish

  Jobs, Fun, Balls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Fashion, Cutting, Technology

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• Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

  Trevor Phillips

  Children, Yards, Prison

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• I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

  Walt Disney

  Life, World, Want

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• So why you pushin' it? Why you lyin' for? I know where you live,
  I know your folks, you was a sucka as a kid.
  Your persona's drama that you acquired in high school in actin' class,
  Your whole aura is plexiglass.
  What's-her-face told me you shot this kid last week in the park;
  That's a lie, you was in church with your moms.

  O.C.

  Mom, Drama, Lying

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• However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.

  Benton MacKaye

  Home, Population, National Parks

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• Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

  Walt Disney

  Fun, Unique, Want

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• Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Rides of Passage". "Via" magazine, July 2005.

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• Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Accomplishment, Bravery

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• Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

  John Muir

  Dust, Solitude, Yosemite

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.350, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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