Provincial Quotes

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Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it. — Graham Russell
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a… — Howard Stringer
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in… — Soong May-ling
The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you… — Jean Chretien
The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be… — Brad Falchuk
With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In… — Masato
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened… — Stockwell Day
Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office,… — Jan Egeland
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate… — Stephen Harper
I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought:… — David Hockney
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend… — Molly Ivins
Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic,… — Chris Matthews
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't… — Orson Welles
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and… — Harlan Ellison
Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person,… — David Sedaris
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most… — Richard P. Feynman
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... — Joseph Brodsky

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