Russell Conwell
Philanthropist
"Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them."
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Backyards
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Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"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."
Russell Conwell
Philanthropist
"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."
Stephen Harper
Politician
"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."
Helmut Newton
Photographer
"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."
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"Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?"
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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."
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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.""
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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."
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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."
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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.""
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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."
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"Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters."
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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."
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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?'"
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"I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows"
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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."
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"My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate."
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"My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida."
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"The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time."
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"That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground."
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"All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right."
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