Local Quotes
1172 quotes by 970 authors
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Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book,…
— Adora Svitak
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There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy…
— Alison Sweeney
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In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you…
— Matt Taibbi
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My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
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I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the…
— Jesse Ventura
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Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.
— Tom Vilsack
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Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.
— Tom Vilsack
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To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and…
— Tom Vilsack
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So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
— Tim Vine
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I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic,…
— Kerry Washington
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We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.
— Jay Weatherill
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One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health…
— Allen West
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In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only…
— Allen West
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Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on…
— Betty White
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
— Rainn Wilson
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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the…
— Angus Young
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We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's…
— Helen Fisher
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In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating…
— Evgeny Morozov
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