Locals Quotes - Page 21

• If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

  Gerald McRaney

  School, Fighting, Winning

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• Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

  Nathan Fillion

  Children, Growing Up, Reading

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• You realize just how long youve been away when you get home and start dialing 8 out of habit so you can get access to local calls.

  Tom Berenger

  Home, Long, Realizing

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• I always try and mix High Street finds into my looks. It really doesn't matter how much something costs, it's the way you wear it! Fashion is about self expression, having fun, and occasionally being a little disposable. I really enjoy lots of stores that are found at local shopping malls. French Connection, Zara, and Topshop always interpret the fashions direct from the catwalk at affordable prices. This playsuit from Hoss Intropia is delicate, super sexy, and has a lingerie feel. I'd throw on a super soft, chunky cardigan and a pair of flat gladiator sandals.

  Cat Deeley

  Sexy, Fashion, Fun

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• As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.

  Boomer Esiason

  Children, Believe, Cfs

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• I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.

  Michelle Branch

  Jobs, Night, Play

  "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

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• If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.

  Newt Gingrich

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• I want to make it clear as Premier and as local member that I strongly support the Renewable Energy Target. Our message to the Federal Government and to Canberra is stick to the Renewable Energy Target.

  Denis Napthine

  Government, Support, Energy

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• For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

  Mel Carnahan

  Successful, Organization, Empowering

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• Should National Security Issues be decided by a Local Referendum?

  Arun Jaitley

  Issues, Referendums, Should

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• We must go beyond organic, as it is currently defined in the National Organic Standards, and strive for food that is not only healthful and natural but also local... Buying locally means farmers get more of the food dollar, we get better nutrition, and less fuel is consumed in transport.

  Kathleen Merrigan

  Mean, Get Better, Dollars

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• What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Book, Shipping, Printing

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.

  Camilla Gibb

  Two, Roots, Differences

  Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.84, Penguin

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• Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a state.

  George W. Bush

  School, Humor, Iowa

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• Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires is common sense – the common sense to eat seasonally, to know where your food comes from, to support and buy from local farmers and producers who are good stewards of our natural resources.

  Alice Waters

  People, Common Sense, Support

  Alice Waters (2010). “In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart”, p.10, Clarkson Potter

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• Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

  Wendell Berry

  Principles, Today, Sake

  New Perspectives Quarterly, www.poetryfoundation.org. 1992.

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• Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Voice, People

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.261, Counterpoint

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• I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Cancer, People, Smoking

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• The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Past, Men

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.14, New World Library

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• After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

  Lloyd Alexander

  College, Quitting, I Quit

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• The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Real, School, Agreement

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.172, Take Root Media

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• A local company has more accountability.

  Paul Hawken

  Accountability, Company

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• It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten human survival is not very likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted.

  Isaac Asimov

  Emotional, World Government, Law

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• I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

  John Hume

  Educational, School, Independent

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to posses the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will, and direct the national force; and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned, in spite of the legions which surround it.

  James Madison

  Government, Europe, People

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