Parks Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Idols, Guy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

  Nick Offerman

  Opportunity, Hands, People

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.

  Nick Offerman

  Woodworking, Parks And Rec, Stuff

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I can play anywhere on the park. Im a bit like that in bed, too

  Steven Gerrard

  Play, Bed, Bits

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• I don't understand people who go to amusement parks. I spend most of my time trying NOT to be nauseous. 'Excuse me, could you strap me in upside down? I'd like to be as sick as humanly possible. I feel great today, I think I'll go down to Funland and snap my neck on the back of a ride. Honey, let's bring the kids, I want to give them a spinal cord injury for Christmas.'

  Dom Irrera

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• I have been given permission to announce that I and others from All My Children have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought AMC, with the intention to move it online.

  Cameron Mathison

  Children, Moving, Intention

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• There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Jobs, Children, People

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• A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

  Jim C. Hines

  Fun, Zombie, Sound

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• A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friends, Clever, Men

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• About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Good Luck, Years

  Jane Austen (2006). “Mansfield Park Volume I [Easyread Comfort Edition]”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2014). “Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen”, BookRix

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• When I flew from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1960, I sat next to a guy from Disney who was paying 75¢ an acre for land. I thought he was some special kind of fool - and since they built the park, history has proven there was a fool sitting in one of our seats.

  Deacon Jones

  Nfl, Land, Guy

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• Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that.

  CM Punk

  Opportunity, People, Different

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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