Locals Quotes - Page 10

• We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

  James Howard Kunstler

  Mean, Rebuilding, Walmart

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Sex, Believe, Successful

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Agriculture, Growth, Way

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in going to some ensemble someplace. Taking my lessons at the local Jewish community center on Staten Island.

  Jon Gordon

  Jobs, Islands, Community

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• "Triennale in the City" is a scheme that is of priority for the sponsoring local government. For many local governments, revitalization is an important mission for the local community, and, therefore, the attitude to achieve this mission through the cultural and/or artistic activities should not be denied.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Attitude, Government, Cities

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• I'm going to bring in something called the London Living Rent. These are homes where rent is one third of average local earnings.

  Sadiq Khan

  Home, Average, London

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• The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the victims of the civil war, that market was actually destroyed and at the end of the war a new Nigeria has struggled to come into being and I believe that what is probably going to replace the market literature might be the video, which they have taken to in a big way, creating dramas. So that may be the next thing way we will see coming out of the local basic level in our society.

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, War, Drama

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• When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.

  Wendell Berry

  Kentucky, Violence, Causes

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.

  Wendell Berry

  Matter, Socialism, Economy

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.

  Jason Silva

  Struggle, Technology, Brain

  Source: www.therobotsvoice.com

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• We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

  Bernie Sanders

  Army, Community, Police

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Smart, School

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It's not my intention to be understood. I will continue writing for a readership that is fundamentally local. Because if you want to produce universal writing, you run the risk of losing your local knowledge. Your views are so universalist that the street aspect disappears.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Running, Writing, Views

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a real connection between the history of print in Europe and nationalism, and how those two things could be formed. I think they may both now be ending, for good and bad, but I think mainly for good. Either globalism was supposed to make people all realize this is one big business going on and we should know what's going on everywhere, or it makes people say, "I don't want to become part of this thing. I want to be incredibly different from you and I want to uphold my local behavior." Dress a certain way.

  Ben Katchor

  Real, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to lose sight of how much of what happens is driven by local politics. And when you're in America in particular, there's this sense that what D.C. has to say is the only thing that counts.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Writing, America, Sight

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

  Cleveland Abbe

  New York, Ignorance, Weather

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• I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

  Diane Abbott

  Visiting, Organisation

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• Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

  Alvin Adams

  Appreciate, Rumor, Matter

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• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  A. R. Ammons

  Stars, Four, Hundred

  A. R. Ammons (1998). “Glare”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

  Ronnie Barker

  Inspirational, Funny, Police

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

  Melissa Bean

  Love, Marriage, Couple

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• An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

  Wendell Berry

  Commitment, People, Principles

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• A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

  Annie Besant

  Government, People, Suffering

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

  Jello Biafra

  School, Cities, Important

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