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• Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Ideas, Stranger

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• The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and never calculate motives or consequences. Giving a young woman a young woman's body makes as much sense as giving ten teenagers Lamborghinis and telling them to drive in figure 8s around a parking lot.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Teenager, Stupid, Giving

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• I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

  Saul Perlmutter

  Growing Up, Kids, Cities

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• In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.

  Billy Corgan

  Dream, Song, Writing

  "Smashing Pumpkins going deluxe on ‘Gish’ and ‘Siamese Dream’ reissues". uproxx.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.

  Dr. Dre

  Taken, Thinking, People

  "Dr. Dre talks up latest bets by Dre Options". www.mtvasia.com. October 18, 2011.

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• So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose

  Martin Seligman

  Country, Psychology, Finding Yourself

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.10, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• When anything good happens to you in your day, give thanks. It doesn't matter how small it is, say thank you. When you get the perfect parking space, hear your favorite song on the radio, approach a light that turns green, or find an empty seat on the bus or train, say thank you. These are all good things that you are receiving from life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Song, Space

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

  Rachel Maddow

  School, Years, Car

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", April 03, 2009.

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• At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

  Susana Martinez

  Dad, Catholic, Church

  Susana Martinez RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

  William Kunstler

  Dream, People, Firsts

  William Moses Kunstler (2004). “The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority”, Ocean Press (AU)

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• If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

  Larry Page

  Long, Waiting, Leaving

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• Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which is why an enemy is so wonderful. You're tired. Didn't sleep well. You have zero energy. Then you get lucky. You pull into the boathouse parking lot and see your favorite enemy. Celebrate. Your workout is saved. One look at that chowderhead can put you into the angerzone. As you turn off your car, you can feel your whole physical being change. Respiration increases. The dull look on your face is magically transformed into the power-stare of a true rowing warriot.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Workout, Zero, Sleep

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• Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.

  Jordana Brewster

  Car, Parks, Helping

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

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• In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wise, Journey, Hiking

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.

  Joni Mitchell

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting for one of my dealers to come up from Fall River, because if I didn't get my stuff I was too sick to even go through the pre-game layup line, never mind actually play in the game.

  Chris Herren

  Fall, Player, Night

  Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds (2011). “Basketball Junkie: A Memoir”, p.174, Macmillan

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• The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Soccer, Baby

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.

  Edward Ruscha

  Real, Cities, Heaven

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• Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?

  Calvin Trillin

  Football, Sex, School

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• The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

  Isaac Asimov

  Important, Income, Nuclear

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

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• Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them

  Megan Amram

  Men, Car, Sometimes

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• Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Weekend, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.88, Crown Archetype

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• A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

  Paul Theroux

  Tired, Might, London

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.

  Bill Cahan

  Design, Months, Clients

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