Parks Quotes - Page 34

• Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Adam Duerson, www.si.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'

  Matthew McConaughey

  Doors, Hello, Unsaid

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• While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

  Mitch McConnell

  Government, Delay, Levels

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• I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

  Moby

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

  "I lost my heart in... New York". Interview with Tim Wapshott, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost make it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.

  Moby

  Ideas, Office, Looks

  "Pop star Moby goes to space camp" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. July 29, 2002.

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• Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

  Alan Moore

  Cereal, Television, Breakfast

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.

  Matthew Morrison

  Running, Perfect, Vancouver

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• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

  Ted Nugent

  Attitude, Fire, Rocks

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• I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

  Barack Obama

  Passing By, Central Park, People

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• It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Hate, Kids

  Remarks of First Lady Michelle Obama Let’s Move! Launch Anniversary Speech to Parents, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 9, 2011.

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• I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.

  Conor Oberst

  Central Park, Forever, Looks

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• If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

  Yoko Ono

  Sky, People, Empty

  "Yoko Ono at 80: 'I feel that I am starting a new life, a second life'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, Coffee, People

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Gathering, Grades

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Interesting, Mutts

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Hands, Names

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

  George Osborne

  Party, Men, Benches

  "More Blairite than Tony" by Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Intelligent, Dinner, Facts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

  Robert Plant

  Teenage, Kids, Three

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• Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

  Roman Polanski

  Paris, Car, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, I just tend to grow my beard out for 'Parks and Rec.' As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role. When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.

  Chris Pratt

  Jobs, Cutting, Hair

  "Alison Brie and Chris Pratt THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Set Visit Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 1, 2012.

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• This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

  John C. Reilly

  Summer, Drama, Real

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• I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Skins, Smooth Skin

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• And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry.

  Bill Bryson

  Sorry, Mean, Shopping

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.232, VNR AG

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