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Quotes About Local

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
~ Fiona Shaw
When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.
~ Narendra Modi
Our local hospitals are the frontline of the fight against Coronavirus and I am proud to have worked with Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan and the administration to ensure our South Jersey hospitals have more of the resources they need.
~ Jeff Van Drew
Stockton University is a cornerstone of South Jersey.
~ Jeff Van Drew
What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.
~ Arthur Schwartz
In some cities, McDonald's rules, but Seattle is ruled by teriyaki joints.
~ Tom Douglas
Foreigners seldom have enough local knowledge to understand how to construct durable states. When their efforts at institution building are halfhearted and underresourced, they often do more damage than good.
~ Francis Fukuyama
According to the first-century use of the word, an ekklesia is a local gathering of Christians who live as a shared-life community and who gather regularly under the Headship of Jesus Christ.
~ Frank Viola
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
~ Bill Hybels
That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
~ Anna Lindh
The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.
~ Al Franken
Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.'
~ Poe Ballantine
Yelp has been in this business since it really became something worth thinking about in 2004, when the transition started happening from the world of the Yellow Pages to the world of searching online for local information.
~ Jeremy Stoppelman
Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
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
What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows wonderful fruits, vegetables, seafood, game, and fowl just outside of Manhattan.
~ Daniel Humm
I look at the idea of eliminating the state and local tax deduction as a geographic redistribution of wealth, because you're taking money from a place like New York to provide deeper tax cuts elsewhere.
~ Lee Zeldin
My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?
~ Robert Wilson
New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.
~ Robert Wilson
Like 'Sex and the City' - if you're a New Yorker, you knew half the places they were going to. I want 'The Chi' to feel that way as well.
~ Lena Waithe
I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.
~ Annie Wersching
I want my songs to be enjoyed by those who travel in a town bus and they should be played repeatedly in a tea shop.
~ D. Imman
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.
~ John Hutton
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
~ Dan Lipinski