Parks Quotes - Page 40

• Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

  Gary Larson

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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• I would recommend if you come to Ocean Grove and you're not from around here, don't wear rubber pants, a pink shirt and a blue jacket. Leave that for Asbury Park.

  Peter Noone

  Ocean, Blue, Rubber

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• At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

  Chris Noth

  New York, Order, Law

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• Six Flags has to be a destination, but it's got to be a place that you want to go to every single summer and you don't want to go just for a roller coaster or a new ride. We have to sell the experience and sell the image: clean, safe, friendly and fun. The parks are not necessarily all of those attributes, but they will be.

  Mark Shapiro

  Summer, Fun, Friendly

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• Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.

  Mark Shapiro

  Summer, Sweet, Six

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• It's so unique. Wilson Park is just such a gem. It's in a convenient location.

  David Wright

  Unique, Location, Wilson

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• Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.

  Janice Hahn

  Zoos, Animal, Cities

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• Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree.

  John Muir

  Fire, Tree, Forever

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• All of which is mostly bullshit. The reality is that it's just like any other Ponzi scheme: the guys at the top are doing pretty well, but the guys on the bottom are doing Amway pitches in trailer parks.

  Tod Goldberg

  Reality, Bullshit, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.

  T.C. Boyle

  Dog, Teeth, Why Not

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.

  David Brooks

  Cutting, Government, Ideas

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu's election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Years, Grandparent, Hyde

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.

  Taryn Manning

  Beautiful, Mother, Home

  Source: m.etonline.com

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• One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place. I remember going from Xboxing, jamming out on guitars and drum machines in my buddy's apartment, to a bike ride through the parks and up and down the streets all over the city, to the ocean, right into the water. I remember we were swimming outer ways and we got to a certain place where we wanted to see - or I wanted to see - how deep the water was.

  Gabriel Mann

  Ocean, Swimming, Guitar

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• While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.

  Sara Paretsky

  Fire, People, Catholic

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else.

  Veronika Varekova

  Army, Elephants, Government

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm not method or anything like that, but sometimes you get the scenes and you're like 'Really, Damon [Lindelof]? More of this? Can I have one scene where it's a walk in the park?' But he doesn't do that. He puts every character through their paces.

  Justin Theroux

  Character, Pace, Sometimes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.

  Haskell Wexler

  Editing, Actors, Done

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• In South Korea, there's a lot of folks who are already saying this deal doesn't go far enough. And I had one source say that President Park will, quote, "get lots of love from D.C. for this" but that the money itself for the fund - $8 million - isn't that much and that the deal itself doesn't ensure that future generations will learn from history so not to repeat it.

  Elise Hu

  Korea, President, Generations

  "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September of 2016. Half of the trillion dollars goes to defense spending and the Pentagon. The other half goes to domestic spending - everything from prisons to parks. So there's also about 74 billion in there that goes to the military operations that we have ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.

  Susan Davis

  Running, Military, Iraq

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• I remember the first time I drove mum's car. We just went to a car park near my house, and it actually wasn't too bad. I felt quite confident straight away.

  Melissa Breen

  Car, House, Firsts

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Kids at skate parks will step up and challenge me to a game of Skate, but I'm over that, I really don't care. I'm all about participating, and I'm all about being a part of this scene, but there's certain vibes I just don't get along with.

  Mike Vallely

  Kids, Games, Challenges

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it's swimming or talking.

  Lewis Pugh

  Swimming, Thinking, Talking

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

  Lewis Pugh

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• It would be kind of ill to see Rachel McAdams win an Oscar [for Spotlight] - I don't think people give her credit for her range, she started in a kind of character with younger demographic-aged films and really made a push to be taken more seriously and got a lot of opportunities and knocked it out the park. But I feel like Jennifer Jason Leigh deserves one, maybe not just for Hateful Eight but for [Anomalisa] and everything. Like, I tried to watch Adaption again, that's rough!

  Bun B

  Taken, Character, Winning

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