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Quotes About Regional

They started saying stuff like 'Should we cut the movie? Is it too this, too that?' It got drastic. It got heated. I said, 'Wait a minute, folks. I didn't make 'Smokey' for big-city audiences. I made it for the South, the Midwest and Northwest. Those are my people.'
~ Hal Needham
I've noticed that Hindi films do well in the north, but they don't do that well in the south. But, I want everything! I want the north and the south.
~ Nidhhi Agerwal
The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
~ Hamid Karzai
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
~ Lee Child
Once upon a time the general problem of the City Chaotic looked so simple. Boulevards and civic monuments were going to create the City Beautiful. After that proved insufficient, regional plans were to create the City Sensible. These proved unacceptable and now we are struggling, sometimes it seems at the expense of everything else, to improvise the City Traversible.
~ Jane Jacobs
In Kerala, we prefer slower films unlike the Hindi audiences. Here they want fast films with action in every frame. Also, we don't have too many songs.
~ Priyadarshan
Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.
~ Philip Hammond
One thing about bowl games for me is that big time programs might rank higher, but I love the regional match ups. The bragging rights are on the line.
~ Kirk Herbstreit
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
~ Amish Tripathi
Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
~ Wanda Jackson
It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
~ Pat Conroy
It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
~ Pat Conroy
Turkey's regional role, which Erdo?an describes as "a continuation of the Ottomans"? Turkey's "accretion of history, and geographic location," he says, make it "the only country that can lead the Muslim world.
~ Daniel Yergin
I have read your fantastical book "Mirror Mirror" with awe and applause! Working with you on my regional TV show for a year was a godsend...you are an inspiration. All success.
~ Christina Crawford
America must distill a common understanding with a country that is the central eventual prize targeted by both the Sunni and the Shia versions of jihad and whose efforts, however circuitous, will be essential in fostering a constructive regional evolution.
~ Henry Kissinger
Quando os Estados não são governados em toda a sua extensão é a própria ordem internacional ou regional que começa a desintegrar-se.
~ Henry Kissinger
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
~ Yair Lapid
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.
~ Hassanal Bolkiah
We do not agree that hindsight is required. The risks of internal strife in Iraq, active Iranian pursuit of its interests, regional instability, and al-Qaeda activity in Iraq, were each explicitly identified before the invasion.
~ John Chilcot
Under my leadership, the government will strive for peace and will not miss an opportunity to bring about regional change.
~ Benny Gantz
The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
~ J. K. Simmons