Locals Quotes - Page 12

• I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

  Jim DeMint

  Home, Museums, Needs

  "The Crisis in a Nutshell: The Zones and Ceilings of National Debt" by Samantha Hening, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senators to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

  Jim DeMint

  Jobs, Cutting, Thinking

  "Sen. Jim DeMint: 'We Are Monetizing Our Debt'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2010.

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• In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Opinion, Synagogue, Concerts

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• I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

  Junot Diaz

  Men, People, Culture

  "Fidelity In Fiction: Junot Diaz Deconstructs A Cheater". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 11, 2012.

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• So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Jobs, School, Weekend

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• It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

  Roger Ebert

  Crazy, Hollywood, World

  Roger Ebert (2017). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition”, p.480, University of Chicago Press

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• Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

  Jan Egeland

  Agency, Years, Recognition

  "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Fire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.

  Tom Felton

  Country, Sunday, America

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• Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, Political, President

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• Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.

  Bobby Flay

  Oil, Pay, Sauce

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Book, Hero

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• The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

  Al Franken

  Team, Years, Wings

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Kids, Parent

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• As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Summer, Children, Home

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams". Neil Gaiman remarks at the interational book festival in Edinburgh, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

  Rachael Ray

  Guy, Trying, Diners

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• I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

  David Rockefeller

  Play, Support, Community

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

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• Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

  Mitt Romney

  Anniversary, Mom, Morning

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

  Mitt Romney

  Taken, Government, Gdp

  "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 2, 2011.

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• They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Responsibility, Organization, Government

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

  Salman Rushdie

  Journey, Long, Mumbai

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• Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

  Joel Salatin

  Practice, Organization, Hype

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• I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Jesus, New York

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• It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

  Paul Samuelson

  Vegas, Office, Rich

  "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

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