Local Quotes
1172 Local quotes by 970 unique authors
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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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Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.
— Andrew Mason
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When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here…
— Rene Redzepi
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I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.
— Hilda Solis
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts,…
— Yuri Milner
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Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and…
— Amos Lee
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But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You have to be…
— Stephen Hunter
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I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would…
— Lev Grossman
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local…
— C. J. Box
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My favorite way to unwind is to go for a walk with my husband and the dog at the end of the working day, then…
— Jacqueline Winspear
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The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more…
— Mick Cornett
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As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related…
— Tom Colicchio
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I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by…
— Ed Rendell
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Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value…
— Gordon Smith
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Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.
— Gordon Smith
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I feel that there is a decision people make to either engage in a legitimately ridiculous process to get your kid into school, or choose…
— John Hodgman
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