Locals Quotes - Page 11

• Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

  Jello Biafra

  America, Attention, Pay

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• I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

  Justin Bieber

  Years, Idols, People

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• In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Vegas, Iowa

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• If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Government, Cities, President

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• Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Party, Book, Together

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• Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

  John Boehner

  Government, America, Small Business

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• Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Latin, Up Early, America

  "Your Interview: Anthony Bourdain". CBC News.ca reader questions, www.cbc.ca. September 8, 2010.

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• I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

  Jo Brand

  Fun, Dad, Sunday

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• I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.

  Eli Broad

  Believe, Hands, Foundation

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• No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Animal, Years, People

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• We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Drunk, Bars

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.48, City Lights Books

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• As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

  Julie Burchill

  Age, Towns, Middle

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Government, Target

  The Economist interview, www.economist.com. March 31, 2010.

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• When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

  Jimmy Carter

  Teaching, Years, Church

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

  Nick Cave

  Children, Community, Library

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• I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, San Francisco, Long

  "My Ellen Visit, Deferred" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2008.

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• And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have...

  Chris Christie

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "Christie: ‘Treat New Jerseyans Like Adults’". Interview with Neil Cavuto, maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com. June 23, 2010.

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• It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Missionary, Records, Foreigners

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• I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.

  George Clooney

  Motorcycle, Towns, Stopping

  "George Clooney's La Dolce Vita". Interview with Jack Ross, dolcemag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Southern, Population

  "Border Raids". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, House

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• I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Looks, Vietnam, Littles

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• My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Appreciate, Upset

  MSNBC, February 8, 1997.

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• When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

  Simon Cowell

  Rights, Apples, Worry

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• There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Water

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