Local Quotes

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Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. — Alvin Adams
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local… — Cleveland Abbe
The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on. — Ronnie Barker
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national… — Melissa Bean
I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations. — Diane Abbott
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled… — Wendell Berry
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is… — Annie Besant
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county… — Jello Biafra
Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections. — Jello Biafra
I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking… — Justin Bieber
In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in… — Lewis Black
If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments;… — Michael Bloomberg
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local… — John Boehner
Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls… — Anthony Bourdain
I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so… — Jo Brand
I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want… — Eli Broad
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local,… — Rita Mae Brown
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. — Charles Bukowski
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never… — Julie Burchill

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