Locals Quotes - Page 27

• I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

  Emma Bonino

  Long, Ministers

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• The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.

  Yuri Milner

  Long, Competition, Important

  "DST's Yuri Milner: Facebook Is Going To Be The Social Graph That Unifies All Civilization". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. May 24, 2010.

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• Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Space, Community, Village

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• Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

  Sue Kelly

  Airports, Benefits, Economy

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• In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

  Emily Procter

  College, Anchors, Weather

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• Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best---a whole greater than the sum of it's parts.

  Alan Brennert

  Believe, Thinking, America

  Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.430, Macmillan

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• The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Church, Visionaries, Brilliant

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• I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, World, Safe

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, www.believermag.com. September 2009.

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• It is important to explain fully to the local areas with sincerity. We will also think, of course, about the development promotion of the communities.

  Shinzo Abe

  Thinking, Community, Important

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• Local casting is just something I love doing.

  Benh Zeitlin

  Casting

  "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Whenever I'm feeling a bit down, I always visit the local children's hospital. Knowing that those cancer-kids wont be able to live long enough to surpass me in fame just warms my heart, you know?

  Zach Braff

  Children, Cancer, Heart

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• Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Attachment, Spots, Born

  Thomas Clarkson (1788). “An essay on the slavery”, p.60

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• Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.

  Alan Coren

  Country, Bread, World

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• There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

  Tony Wilson

  Powerful, Homegrown

  "'I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old'". Interview with Jessica Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2002.

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• Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Thinking, Bigs, Competing

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• We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous - and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.

  Dan Gillmor

  Moving, Government, Media

  "Dan Gillmor: 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly". www.niemanlab.org. December 20, 2011.

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• No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

  David Penman

  Encouragement, People, Church

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• "Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.

  Clive James

  Voice, America, Giving

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• Everybody knows how much time Fang spends in bed. A local store that gives a 30 days' trial on mattresses gives Fang only 15 days.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Giving, Sloth

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• The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me to the railway station?" asks the stranger. "Certainly," says the local, pointing in the opposite direction, towards the post office, "and would you post this letter for me on your way?" "Certainly," says the stranger, resolving to open it to see if it contains anything worth stealing.

  Linda McQuaig

  Winning, Opposites, Office

  Linda McQuaig (2001). “All you can eat: greed, lust, and the new capitalism”, Viking

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• We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.

  Joe Elliott

  Dream, Airports, Names

  "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

  Vicente Fox

  Thinking, Usa, Important

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• To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

  Clifford Geertz

  Life, Nature, Congratulations

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• Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I know that has lost money consistently and makes money infrequently.

  Richard L. Hanna

  Football, Team, Government

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• As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

  Melissa Bean

  Impact, House, Mind Your Own Business

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