Local Influence Quotes

The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.

One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn't really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.

They are big fish in a small pond.

In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.

I hear my voice and I cringe, I kind of hear Philadelphia in there, my hometown.

I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.

When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we're still playing our metal music.

As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I could also dream about being a great golfer like Bobby Jones or Byron Nelson. But the idea of being an Olympic golfer never occurred to me.

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

Toxeth made me who I am today - it is a great area.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.

Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

Although, I didn't really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality.

We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.

I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know.

My father, Larry McKelvey, he was the man in Moncks Corner. He ran illegal nightclubs where everyone went, ran around in red leather pants, claimed he partied with Rick James. If you needed anything in Moncks Corner, you saw Larry McKelvey.

What happens across the planet can have a greater impact on your family than what happens down the street.