Locals Quotes - Page 37

• I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.

  Gary Gygax

  Thinking, Grandparent, Wish

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• On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off a UN plane on orders from Geneva. We had to get local journalists to transport the films in for us. I tell you this only to demonstrate that festivals can be a lifeline. But, after all the difficulties I'd had in getting there, in 1996 I found myself being flown in on a four-seater RAF plane as an official guest, endorsed by the British Embassy. Ironically, the film I was to present was Mission: Impossible.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Order, Iron, Raf

  "Vanessa Redgrave: 'I want to give people the jolliest time'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2012.

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• There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.

  Tina Weymouth

  Girl, Artist, Tolerance

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• When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.

  Bobby Seale

  Hippie, Rights, Pigs

  The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

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• "Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

  James Nicoll

  Gun, Two, Police

  Usenet article, 2005.

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• If the constitution is not changed, then we will try to bring it down either before the referendum through the law by filing a suit in international or local courts, if we can, challenging the legitimacy of this constitution and the National Assembly.

  Saleh al-Mutlaq

  Law, Challenges, Trying

  "Iraqi Sunnis Rally Against Constitution". Al-Jazeera Interview, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2005.

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• It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Book, Mean, Doors

  Silver RavenWolf (2012). “To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft”, p.18, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

  John Mearsheimer

  Army, Europe, United States

  "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.

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• Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

  Fran Drescher

  Pain, Order, Chinese

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it.

  Romeo LeBlanc

  Character, Weapons, Save A Life

  Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the insignia of the Order of Military Merit, February 05, 1997.

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• A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.

  Jack Valenti

  Thinking, Television, Unfair

  Jack Valenti's comments on the Cable television industry in testimony to Congress (June 1974), as quoted in "What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. April 27, 2007.

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• [Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.

  William Thomas Beckford

  Fiction, Half, Literature

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• It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category - humor, intelligence, creativity, and just plain entertainment value - ranks it somewhere between a bad infomercial and a local cable newscast. Rarely do I consider the act of seeing a movie to be a chore, but this kind of experience is the exception.

  James Berardinelli

  Creativity, Poor Quality, Mind

  "The Pest (1997)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Song, Guy, Dozen

  "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.

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• The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel.

  Jose Peralta

  Teacher, New York, Children

  "DA Brown, Council Candidates Get Dem Nod" by John Toscano, www.qgazette.com. May 21, 2003.

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• It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

  Flora Thompson

  Country, Traffic, Heavy

  "Dashpers". Unfinished novel by Flora Thompson. Chapter Two: "A House is Built", 1942.

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• As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.

  Robert Hormats

  Smart, Cities, Safety

  "Seizing the Opportunities of Global Urbanization: The New Frontier in America’s International Economic Policy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• At the local government level, policies must be championed to increase the number of instructional hours in our schools as well as make the process of admission easier in order to enroll and keep a higher number of students in class.

  Shaheen Mistri

  School, Order, Class

  "The Global Search for Education: Education Is My Right - India". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away

  Peter Gabriel

  Discovery, Gone Away, People

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• Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us
  by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country
  during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to
  that all personal and local considerations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Sacrifice, Safety

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.

  Bill Maher

  Museums, Space, Atlantis

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.162, Penguin

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• I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

  Kevin Spacey

  Dog, Able, Welcome

  "Kevin Spacey answers your questions – as it happened". Live chat, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2014.

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• I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Fire, Water

  "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2014.

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• Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

  Peter Padfield

  Wall, Powerful, Ocean

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• In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.

  Clive James

  Pride, Views, Whales

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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