A Quote by Dave Myers

We're not parochial people.

Dave Myers

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Parochial People

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Dave Myers
American - Chef

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Lewis Mumford

I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!

Janet Jackson

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

Haris Pasovic

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

Steven Pinker

The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.

Gladys Berejiklian

People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.

Nicola Sturgeon

I am the enemy of anything parochial.

George Brandis

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

George A. Moore

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Susan Sarandon

The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

Derek Walcott

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people.

Daniel Tammet

I'm a very loyal, parochial Australian and I can never say we're going to lose a series.

Glenn McGrath

Contrary to general expectations, caste, regionalism, criminalisation, and parochial interests continue to sway the nation.

N. Bhaskara Rao

I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and what is success for us and what's not... without being too parochial about it, I think Aussies are more direct.