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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. -- Colin Powell
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. -- Christian Wiman
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. -- Rodney Atkins
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. -- John Tukey
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected. -- Annie Leibovitz
I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it. -- Brandi Chastain
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. -- Jean Burden
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. -- John Betjeman
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard. -- Geddy Lee
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. -- John Thorn
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
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up. -- Jennifer Lawrence
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard. -- Jose Saramago
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
Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story. -- Pete Munro
I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. -- Devon Werkheiser
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
It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?' -- Tori Spelling
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
We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. -- Norman Mailer
How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way. -- Lisa Marie Presley
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
After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard. -- James Wolcott
For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out. -- Karen McDougal
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic. -- Gore Vidal
Small steps taken by many people in their backyards add up. -- Nancy Knowlton
I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings. -- Caroline B. Cooney
I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink. -- Tatiana Maslany
I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money. -- Bill Hader
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
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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