Local Quotes
1172 quotes by 992 authors
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You always help out a local businessperson.
— Buddy Valastro
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A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered,…
— Lorrie Moore
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Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.
— Stewart O'Nan
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All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I…
— Linda Sue Park
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we…
— Owen Paterson
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The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local…
— Owen Paterson
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It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.
— Rick Riordan
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The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in…
— Joel A. Barker
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The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my…
— Blake Mycoskie
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There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the…
— Zack de la Rocha
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My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.
— Alex Karpovsky
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There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen…
— Morris Hite
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Consider what kind of nation we would be if hundreds of scandals involving state and local government still lay locked in the mouths of citizens.
— Jack C Landau
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There…
— Nancy Cartwright
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There is a story that when incoming jets throttle back for the approach to Belfast's Aldergrove Airport, the pilots tell their passengers to put their…
— Russell Miller
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The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god, and its village police and sanitary regulations are erected into eternal…
— John Macy
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So one day as a kid I was at the local Zoo. I was bored and kept pestering my Dad to go and play. Eventually…
— Robert Paul
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Some people like to save money not knowing that they are wasting it, rather not to buy bread around local shops but pop out another…
— Simphiwe Scientist Dumi
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Never love someone beneath your level of evolution. If you want a monkey, you can visit one at your local zoo
— Superman
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Most STUPID questions people usually ask in obvious situation. 1. At movies: hey! What are you doing here? Me: I sell tickets in black here.…
— Cuts And Scars
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