Naveen Tewari Quotes

At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

The most interesting lessons often lie in the mundane - those aspects of everyday life that locals take for granted and tourists tend to overlook.

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.

I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.

The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around.

Every community has its own specialty and it's not just for clothing obviously, but for the home, etc.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

I always wanted to build something in Vegas, especially off The Strip. I know how it is for locals. They don't like going to The Strip for entertainment or even to eat.

I know a lot about City.

Regional developers have a clear head start in their home communities. They have been there longer and understand their market. As a result, these markets are, in fact, more competitive than those in Manila.

It's always better when travelling to be in a place where your friends know the area well.

If you grow up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as I did, 5:30 means 5:30.

I think local shopping areas and markets are terribly important, both for tradespeople and the local feeling of an area.

I come from a one-by-three-mile town: Seaford.

Decisions made centrally, thousands of miles from the markets clients are operating in, will likely not be as attuned to local market realities.

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

I think the place fed me completely. Not only was I in Uganda, but I was around many people who had a personal relationship with Idi Amin. I was eating the food constantly. I was culturally hanging out with the people. You can't help but absorb the energy, and try to get inside the culture.

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.