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Quotes About Local

I prefer pub food to posh food.
~ Prue Leith
Local airports serve an important role as economic and public safety assets for communities across the state.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and local levels. That's where the real opportunities are today.
~ Alexis Herman
My mum and dad had four pubs when we were growing up, but the main one was the New Inn in Hattersley, on the estate. It was a very good pub.
~ Ricky Hatton
Being around my local community, seeing how many pubs are closing down there, it hurts me.
~ Jimmy Bullard
I made a series set in India that was more of a conventional fishing show. The fish were very uncooperative, so we were casting around for other bits of local color. We heard local stories of something pulling people into the water. They called it the Kali man-eater. We did a bit of a feature on this, and if formed part of that series.
~ Jeremy Wade
I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.
~ Soccer Mommy
The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.
~ Chris Gardner
My favorite food in the world is hard shell crabs from Maryland.
~ David Benioff
I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.
~ Nikki Reed
What makes a good festival, above all, is the audience. It feels disconnected when it's meant to bring in people from elsewhere and not meant for the people who actually live there.
~ Baron Vaughn
I just grew up in Ajax with all the players from Ajax. We only had two or three foreigners, so everyone knew each other and knew the system.
~ Edgar Davids
I want the people of Franklin County to know how much I care about them.
~ Robert J. Bentley
In Chennai, I do film reviews for a local channel. Every second movie I review is by a debutant. There is so much passion and freshness in those films; that makes them special.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
When you look at a mayor, Americans see mayors favorably. We are at the front line of what Americans are dealing with every day.
~ Wayne Messam
I don't fund county roads.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
Something in his leisurely move- ments and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to deter- mine what share was his of our local heavens.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The clock there had not been properly adjusted to local time, and she had to subtract twenty-one minutes to determine that it was about 2 A.M. The
~ Frank Herbert
The first-century churches were locatable, identifiable, visitable communities that met regularly in a particular locale.
~ Frank Viola
In order to make a name for myself I took notice of the craziest wildest son-of-a-guns out there, and how they would receive a lot of the attention from the local wrestling periodicals. I decided that I would become an oddity, and that's how I have existed ever since.
~ Terry Funk
Fish and Wildlife has a significant amount of federal funds for land acquisition, yet it is skimping on management of the lands it already possesses and shortchanging local tax bases.
~ Stephen Fincher
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S.
~ Rebecca Pidgeon
And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
~ Taylor Hackford