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A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx / Comedian
Funny
Running
Medical
Bed
Meter
Taxi
Witty
Hospital
Parked
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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
Evan Davis / Economist
Funny
Car
Humor
Someday
Back
Look
Moment
Parked
Plow
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I'm up before 6, but then I'm parked in front of the PC until noon.
Lori Foster / Writer
Noon
Parked
Pc
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Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.
Sebastian Thrun / Educator
Estimate
Parked
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You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.
Leon Krier / Architect
Finest
Buildings
Parked
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In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
Helen Rowland / Journalist
Men
Funny Love
Heart
Speed
Love Heart Man
Either
Exceeding
Limit
Parked
Speed Limit
Wrong Place
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Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
Bill Nelson /
Workers
Attendant
Parked
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
Jackson Browne / Singer-Songwriter
English Language
Heard
Language
Player
Porsche
Would Be
Banjo
English
Often
Least
Outside
Parked
Sentence
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The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.
Ronald Biggs / Actor
New Year
Drunk
Nice
Truck
Years
Years Ago
Box
Eve
Parked
Stole
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There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
John Prine / Singer-Songwriter
Car
Accidents
Bad Luck
Certain
Comedy
Luck
Pathos
Trouble
Hit
Driver
Wonders
Parked
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I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn.
Marcia Clark / Prosecutor
Protection
Reporters
Sidewalk
Lawn
Parked
Terrifying
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Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.
Joe Montana / Football Player
Jobs
Coaches
Coaching
Middle
Night
Not Knowing
Player
Players
Hard Job
Parked
Requires
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Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road where my truck was parked a few miles away. Another time, I got stuck in quicksand for two days.
Trevor Paglen / Artist
Another Time
Desert
Dirt
Middle
Miles
Quicksand
Stuck
Truck
Star
Follow
North
Parked
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Others may prefer mindless entertainment, but on Sunday nights, you'll find me parked right in front of my television, munching popcorn and improving my intellect by watching 'Masterpiece Classic.'
Teresa Medeiros / Novelist
Classic
Improving
Intellect
Masterpiece
Mindless
Popcorn
Sunday
Nights
Parked
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Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.
Rodney Mullen / Skateboarder
Eye
Homeless
Late Night
Night
Talking
Texting
Uncomfortable
Certain Things
Dude
Expects
Parked
Skate
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If you see a dog in a hot car, and you think that he's in danger or that he's been there for a while, it's good to speak up... Go into whatever businesses it's parked outside of, and just raise awareness about it.
Krysten Ritter / Actress
Danger
Parked
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When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.
Jerry O'connell / Actor
Girl
Adolescence
Party
School
Opposite
Coolest
Little Girls
Parked
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You do get your stalkers and obsessives though, and it's a huge problem sometimes. When I lived in Jersey, I used to have a middle-aged lady who, when I'd wake in the middle of the night, I'd see her van parked outside.
John Nettles / Actor
Jersey
Middle Aged
Lady
Parked
Van
Wake
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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
Roger Ebert / Film Critic
Identifying
Numbers
People
Social Security
Two
Parked
Screen
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When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.
Aron Ralston / Engineer
Home
Contact
County
Feet
Information
Vehicle
Winter
Case
Climb
Sheriff
Parked
Peak
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Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.
Michael T. Flynn /
Combat
Units
Boxed
Corner
Parked
Prior
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I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.
Will Ferrell / Comedian
Avoided
Hated
Phones
Plenty
Valet
Waiter
Answered
Bank
Parked
Somehow
Teller
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It was on a trip to Africa with my family - I was eight - and an angry baboon jumped through the window of our parked car. As my siblings escaped, my foot got stuck in the seat. I froze and watched it steal the whole contents of our car around me.
Cressida Bonas /
Angry
Sibling
Stuck
Window
Seat
Contents
Escaped
Foot
Parked
Steal
Trip
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I used to have Lamborghinis, Ferraris parked up outside the house - just parked there with no one driving them! Now I'm much wiser, and I only have one car that I drive. What's the point of having three cars just parked up when you don't need them?
Amir Khan /
Wiser
Parked
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Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.
Dave Grohl / Musician
Couple
Garage
Jet
Lear
Luggage
Macho
People
Records
Assume
Big Enough
Bikes
Parked
Whenever
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I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.
Talulah Riley / Film Actress
Long Time Ago
Ages
Time Long Fun
Fun Thing
Intend
Parked
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Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. You are baby-sitting rich, spoiled kids... I don't know where you parked your car!
Joe Montana / Football Player
Coaches
Not Knowing
Spoiled
Hard Job
Parked
Requires
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I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga. I never been one of these guys who drives cross-country and knows some one-legged sailor who has a boat parked off some pier with a thousand Russian funk records that he stole from the Red Army in 1972.
El-P / Hip-Hop Artist
Army
Boat
Funk
Huge
Records
Thousand
Collection
Beat
Drives
Guys
Off
Parked
Russian
Stole
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I don't need the water to be inspired. My stories inspire me, not the location of where I'm parked. And good thing, since I've had to finish books in airports, in the RV we used to have, the lake house, while on vacation, at home, in the kitchen when my office PC was on the fritz.
Lori Foster / Writer
Vacation
Inspire
Location
Airport
Finish
Fritz
Good Thing
Lake
Parked
Pc
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It's not the number of trucks parked outside that make a movie interesting but if you have more money, you have more time. More time enables you to try out other possibilities or follow an interesting lead. I don't like indulgence, but to have more possibilities is always more interesting.
Christoph Waltz / Actor
Indulgence
Time Money Always
Enables
Parked
Possibilities
Trucks
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz / Author
Dance
Clean
Different
Hills
Light
Moon
Get
Associate
Cook
Flowers
Domestic
Fairies
Glass
Parked
Pressures
Princesses
Sip
Tend
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I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.
Jack Monroe /
Display
Electricity
Furniture
Gas
Hallway
Oven
Parked
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Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric.
James Howard Kunstler / Author
Desirable
Destructive
Fabric
Psychological
Rich
Sidewalk
Lots
Barrier
Buffer
Civic
Eliminate
Extremely
Parallel
Parked
Pedestrian
Physical
Protects
Reasons
Supply
Vehicles
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