Local Quotes
1172 quotes by 992 authors
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They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you…
— Mike Epps
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Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo…
— Chuck Zito
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Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal…
— Kit Bond
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And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this…
— Fredric Jameson
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We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they…
— Kenny Marchant
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The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their…
— Jenny Shipley
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I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.
— Mark Edwards
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Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements…
— Earl Blumenauer
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As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was…
— Ben E. King
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with…
— George Miller
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My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
— Richard Wilson
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Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence…
— Eric Alterman
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Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog…
— Eric Alterman
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Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes…
— Mark Hyman
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The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
— Antony Beevor
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It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home…
— Simon Armitage
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The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
— Andrew Mason
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