Locals Quotes - Page 31

• If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Running, Mean, Race

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• I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

  Sienna Miller

  Able, Towns, Walks

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• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Fighting, Years

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• I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, College, Years

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• My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.

  Jamie Oliver

  Monday, Recipes, Thursday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

  Jared Polis

  Government, Priorities, Promise

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• The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  College, Rights, Government

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• The number of small businesses in the United States totals about 25 million. Because most of these have a local trading territory, relatively few advertise online. Online advertising reaches the masses of the Internet world, whether they are local or not.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Numbers, United States, World

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Traditional local media are adding local search capabilities to their sites so they can share in the local search traffic and ad revenues in the local markets they serve.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Media, Share, Traffic

  Marc Ostrofsky (2012). “Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.

  Russell Pearce

  Fighting, Law, Trying

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• Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.

  Will Rogers

  Thoughtful, Community, Growth

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• By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mother, Waiting, Four

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• Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

  Nancy Grace

  Thinking, People, Justice

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• The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.

  Robert Greenwald

  Baby, Fate, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

  Amanda Hocking

  Taken, Writing, School

  "Meet Mega Bestselling Indie Heroine Amanda Hocking". Interview with Tonya Plank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.

  Anthony Head

  Advice, Yogurt, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

  Daryl Hall

  Mother, Teacher, Memories

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• I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Book, Email, Literature

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• While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Government, Sticks, Carrots

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• I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

  Tom T. Hall

  Book, Library, Hobbies

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• One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Winter, Animal, Giving

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• I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

  Celia Imrie

  Drama, School, Connections

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• Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, Men, Numbers

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• Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

  Steven Johnson

  Organization, Empowering, Decision

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• My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

  Brion James

  Jobs, Done, Dialect

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