Locals Quotes

• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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• Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

  Toni Morrison

  Memories, Home, People

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• When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

  Ruth Simmons

  Roots, Innovation, Working Together

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Skins, Dozen

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.

  Elisabet Sahtouris

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written by local writers, it just takes a little bit of openness to open your pages up to a wider freelance writer pool, and then you might find new voices and a wider array of voices, and definitely more original content that can't be found anywhere else.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Voice, Littles

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 1, 2010.

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• A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Engineering, America, Community

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• Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage.

  Sun Tzu

  Team, Mountain, Doe

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• We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

  Joseph Campbell

  Groups, Needs, Individual

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.30, Anchor

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• I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.

  L. Todd Rose

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.

  Corri Wilson

  Community, Trump, Banned

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy a good product than a bad one. Do not buy anything you don't need. Do as much as you can for yourself. If you cannot do something for yourself, see if you have a neighbor who can do it for you. Do everything you can to see that your money stays as long as possible in the local community.

  Wendell Berry

  Long, Community, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• To be saved is here, local and mortal

  A. R. Ammons

  Saved, Mortals

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• I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

  John Darnielle

  California, Southern, Grew

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.

  Jimenez Lai

  Country, Communication, Czech Republic

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

  Jimenez Lai

  Hero, Cities, Impressive

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth.

  John L. Casti

  Believe, Opposites, Groups

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet, it's pretty fantastic.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Beautiful, Girl, Frozen

  "'Thank God We're Getting There': Tracee Ellis Ross on the Changing Face of Movies and TV". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 16, 2016.

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• If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Airplane, Details, Looks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb.

  Anne Sweeney

  Morning, College, America

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you know, still opened up every week and, you know, played - sometimes they would play it at the local, you know, mall theater.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Growing Up, Boys, Play

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• You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.

  Jeff Atwood

  Heart, Winning, Mind

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic lodge halls. It was a tight-knit community, and the support and success the act enjoyed here enabled them to hit the road and make it in big-time vaudeville.

  Karen Abbott

  Kids, June, Rose

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.

  Karen Abbott

  Thinking, Voice, Roots

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• Trenchmouth, really great band. Here's a photo of them in 1979 playing the Valley Green projects. It was an incredible, unusual experience. We ran a cord through the window and plugged the PA and amps into that and played right in the courtyard. It was an incredible experience. It was just local kids.

  Ian MacKaye

  Kids, Valleys, Band

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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