Locals Quotes - Page 26

• I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in vain to find one that had my name on it. Because there were so many books in the library, with so many different names on them, I’d assumed that one of them — somewhere — had to be mine. I didn’t understand at the time that a person’s name appears on a book because he or she wrote it. Now that I’m twenty-six I know better. If I were ever going to find my book one day, I was going to have to write it.

  Daniel Tammet

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant". Book by Daniel Tammet, 2006.

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• Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.

  James Gleick

  Communication, Writing, Echoes

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• The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Math, Science, Arrogance

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• You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Research, Littles, Lists

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• Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.

  David Graeber

  Dream, Song, Sex

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• I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

  Florence Welch

  Jumping, Tree, Hitting

  "What will Florence Welch say next - and will we understand it?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2012.

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• The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

  Michael Lewis

  Fire, Media, Half

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Play, Red

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• TV can reach broad audiences, mass audiences, niche audiences; it can be local, regional, national; it can be spots, sponsorship, interactive. It can be anything you want it to be. I tend to think of TV as the Swiss Army knife of media, it's got something for everybody.

  Nick Manning

  Army, Thinking, Media

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• During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Government, Training, Special

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• I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Team, Government, Cities

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• Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder.

  Stefan Rahmstorf

  Winter, Global Warming, Regions

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• Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Running, Risk, Toxic

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• Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Awkward, Use, Way

  Interview with Michael Connett, thenhf.com. October 4, 2005.

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• I heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look....they took my breath away...with their music, comedy, and showmanship.... 'Dakaboom'.. is the genuine article! Two voices in perfect harmony, and with joyful abandon and humor, they take you on a magical, musical, modern day vaudeville tour!! Ben McLain and Paul Peglar are headed for stardom. They are unique, they are original, and they are known as 'Dakaboom.' Don't miss 'em 'cause you're in for a treat!

  Tommy Smothers

  Song, Unique, Two

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• Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Struggle, Book

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• I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

  Jack Irons

  School, Play, Age

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• Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

  Peter Piot

  Epidemics, World, Sides

  "Ebola Co-Discoverer: 'This Was an Avoidable Catastrophe'" by Peter Piot, time.com. October 1, 2014.

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• Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.

  Daniel Pauly

  Motivation, Common Sense, Elements

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• At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

  Eric Chaisson

  Special, Groups, Mediocrity

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.90, Columbia University Press

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• Global vision, local win.

  Jack Ma

  Winning, Vision

  Reflects On 12-Year Journey at China 2.0 Conference, singjupost.com. September 18, 2014.

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• When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Break Up, Girl, Team

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• I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.

  April Winchell

  Music, Country

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• But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

  Tony Campolo

  Blessed, Thinking, Government

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• In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

  Timothy West

  Art, Hands, Theatre

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