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The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
John Tukey

Authors on Backyards Quotes: Barack Obama Russell Conwell Pete Munro Ariana Grande Philip Rivers Nora Roberts Kanye West Chuck Liddell Queen Latifah Len Wiseman Rodney Atkins David Suzuki Josh Duhamel Laura Kipnis Sherrilyn Kenyon Veronica Roth Ellen DeGeneres Mark Hall Nancy Knowlton Colin Powell Frank Sinatra, Jr. Rodney Jerkins Cathie Pelletier Josh Fox Neil deGrasse Tyson Robert Scheid Viola Davis Bart Starr Mark Twain Karen Russell Betty White Patrick Rothfuss Helmut Newton
2.
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
Colin Powell

3.
I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
Fred Durst

4.
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
Russell Conwell

5.
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.
Christian Wiman

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Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.
Jim Furyk

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I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.
Kanye West

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You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.
Russell Conwell

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We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
Brennan Manning

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I'll fight somebody in my backyard for free, just to see if I'm better than him.
Chuck Liddell

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I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
Stephen Harper

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In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
Helmut Newton

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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?
Matsuo Basho

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When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.
Greg Noonan

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I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.
David Duchovny

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Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.
Rod Taylor

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If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
Charles Colson

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At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.
Alain Ducasse

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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.
Bart Starr

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During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
Betty White

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I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."
Frank Sinatra, Jr.

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I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
Queen Latifah

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Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
Rodney Atkins

26.
I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.
Josh Fox

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Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.
Larry Winget

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Small steps taken by many people in their backyards add up.
Nancy Knowlton

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It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.
Mark Hall

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I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.
Brandi Chastain

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I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.
Philip Rivers

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Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.
David Suzuki

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I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.
Josh Duhamel

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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
Sylvia Earle

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I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.
Nick Goepper

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Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)
Ilana Mercer

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Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.
Barack Obama

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...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.
Ellen DeGeneres

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Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.
Stephen King

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If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
Tony Kushner

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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."
Barack Obama

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In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.
Steve Scott

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Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
Sara Genn

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The world of your photography is limitless-just like your backyard.
Nick Kelsh

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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'
Melinda Gates

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And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.
Nora Roberts

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I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.
Veronica Roth

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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
Patrick Rothfuss

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Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.
Rodney Jerkins

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With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.
Len Wiseman