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Quotes About Local

I flew to Detroit and reported to Local 299 on Trumbull Avenue. That was Jimmy's home local. It was down the street from Tiger Stadium.
~ Charles Brandt
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
~ Charles Bukowski
if everyone focused their love, care, and commitment to protecting and regenerating their local places, while respecting the local places of others, then a side effect would be the resolution of the climate crisis.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.
~ Charles Francis Richter
A school library is the brightest beacon of youthful hope. A public library is the brightest beacon of community hope. A local library is the brightest beacon of global hope.
~ Terri Guillemets
Ideology, wherever it exists, is almost invariably pressed into the service of local geopolitics. In short, we witness the role of anti-Byzantine impulses facilitating the Islamic conquest in many of the Semitic regions.
~ Graham E. Fuller
You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
~ Graham Taylor
Stop wishing that the traffic wasn't so heavy, you live here, this is rush hour, deal with it.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Los gobiernos estatales son los responsables, por ejemplo, de que en México sólo se castiguen en promedio cinco de cada 100 homicidios dolosos, pues la persecución de los homicidios no es una facultad federal, sino local.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
El dominio sobre la economía local y sus rentas es efectivo también. A semejanza de lo que hace con los alcaldes, Servando Gómez, La Tuta, puede convocar a una asamblea de productores de aguacate, limón o ganado, para fijarles las cuotas que van a pagar por sus huertos y ranchos. Más tarde, La Familia tendrá el control directo de los huertos
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
its major respects the national party is a holding company for complex and interlacing clusters of local groups
~ James MacGregor Burns
Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.
~ Dick Durbin
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
~ Barry Gibb
Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.
~ Danny Meyer
The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.
~ Dick Thornburgh
So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.
~ Lakhdar Brahimi
The franchisees are uniquely in touch at the local level. They see what's going on in their communities in a way we couldn't ever imagine.
~ Fred DeLuca
City government is the level closest to the people, so our charge uniquely embodies the big and the small.
~ Michelle Wu
There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
~ Alan Mulally
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
~ Henry Knox
A universal cash transfer in the form of a minimum guaranteed income would mean that automatically everyone has something to fall back on without having to deal with the vagaries of their local panchayat.
~ Abhijit Banerjee
I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
~ Zadie Smith
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
~ Jay Weatherill