Locals Quotes - Page 32

• The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

  Fredric Jameson

  Heart, Clothes, Culture

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.

  Peter James

  Sunday, Thinking, Unique

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.

  Caroline Knapp

  Coffee, Solitude, Milk

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• Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  People, Best Food, Rely

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• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  Rachel Maddow

  Beautiful, Hug, Spy

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• 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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• No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Teacher, School, Government

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• In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

  Russell Pearce

  Law, Immigration, United States

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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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• You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Country, War, Communication

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• 2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.

  Kevin Rudd

  Years, Australia, Government

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

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• Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

  Satyajit Ray

  Years, Bombay, Film

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

  Satyajit Ray

  Pakistan, Want, Limits

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

  Andy Sawford

  Government, Benefits, Majority

  "The budget: we pick the key points for local authorities" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

  Ruta Sepetys

  New Orleans, Cities, America

  "Ruta Sepetys. Seeker Of Lost Stories". FAQ, rutasepetys.com.

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• Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of agriculture, replacing them with an industrial system-centrally managed, pesticide-intensive, one-crop production for export-designed to deliver a narrow range of transportable foods to the world market.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Agriculture, World, Pesticides

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• While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won't find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science museum. Why? Well, one explanation that you might consider, ghosts are just figments of our highly fertile imaginations!

  Seth Shostak

  Believe, Museums, Imagination

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