Wonderful Places Quotes

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  Walt Disney

  Death, Dream, Inspiration

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• Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

  Christopher Alexander

  People, World, Wonderful

  Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.206, Oxford University Press, USA

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• With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists in there, to show us what a wonderful place they are, and what great allies they are to America, even though they didn't actually fight in the war.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Fighting, Kuwait

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more friends - a lot more engagements with the Chinese, with the Indians, with the Brazilians as the United States retreats. Actually, Africa is a wonderful place to do business and American business is missing a big opportunity by really overlooking Africa.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Opportunity, Missing, Chinese

  "Mo Ibrahim: The 'Bill Gates Of Africa'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 25, 2013.

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• Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.

  Nancy Spain

  Book, Writing, Atmosphere

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• Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

  Stephen Harper

  Police, Wonderful, Members

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• The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

  George Seaton

  Country, Imagination, Wonderful

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• There is a wonderful place
  where flowers grow in colors
  beyond the words of poets...
  trees sing with the
  songs of butterflies.
  And mythical tigresses look
  at you with fiery golden eyes...
  open your heart
  and feel the colors of magic
  blooming inside you.

  Laurel Burch

  Song, Flower, Eye

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• I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Thinking

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• New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  New York, Awful, Wonderful

  "'You have to make sure things don't go to your head'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2005.

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• I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Children, Thinking

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• I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Intelligent, People, Interesting

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• New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city.

  Jane Curtin

  New York, Cities, Bystanders

  "Jane Curtin looks at "Unforgettable" life and career". Interview with Jill Jacobs, www.reuters.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.

  Jay Bell

  Beautiful, People, Would Be

  Jay Bell (2017). “Something Like Summer: School Edition”, p.24, Jay Bell

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• Camp David is a wonderful place for the family to get away and run around and do goofy things.

  Susan Ford

  Running, Goofy, Wonderful

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• It's all about, you know, continuing to get to know ourselves in a very diverse and complicated country that is America. It is a wonderful place to live. But because it is so diverse, our challenges are complex.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, America, Challenges

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.

  Robert Benton

  New York, People, Interesting

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.

  Bill Murray

  Morocco, Places To Go, Get Money

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

  Lori Lansens

  Wonderful, Ailments

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.

  Petter Stordalen

  Home, Diversity, Office

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• Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People, India, World

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• I've worked in almost every other place in Canada except Toronto, funny enough, where my husband's from. The first time I was here it was winter, and I got engaged. The second time I was here it was summer, and I was married. My family lives here, my stepson lives here, so it's a wonderful place. Everyone's very nice and hospitable, unlike Hollywood.

  Tori Spelling

  Summer, Husband, Nice

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• The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

  Robert Reed

  Wonderful, Imagine, Burden

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• [St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Artist, Fishing, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Makeup, Ideas

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