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“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.”

States Together Mom Towns Majority Pops Stores Coffee Checks Shops Farms Thread Small Town Small Business Bookstores Merchants Coffee Shop Vermont Barbers Grocers Barber Shop

Author:Peter Welch

“I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.”

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Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.”

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Author:Bill Moyers

“Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.”

Ifs Would Be Remember Games Heard Towns Stores Gas Stations Saturday Small Town Lawns Downtown Nebraska Gas Stations Mowing Mowing The Lawn Living In A Small Town

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.”

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Author:Todd Grisham

“Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.”

“There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own -- coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades 'cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.”

Knows Littles Country Jobs Causes Band Musician Towns Trade Musical Woods Stores Makers Vegetables Coal New Orleans Cotton Cigar Carpenter Day Jobs Bricklayers

Author:Zutty Singleton

“My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.”

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Author:PJ Harvey

“I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.”

Ifs Men Want Strong Opinion Towns Stores Kitchen Restaurants Appliances Dishwashers Strong Opinions

Author:Bryan Q. Miller

“I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small towns. Self-storage. Things that didn't exist 50 years ago. Our common culture. What we have agreed is OK to live with.”

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Author:Sam Abell

“I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research. I didn't know the towns my mother and father came from in Russia. I didn't know the name of the clothing store I went to work for when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot of things. So I called for my FBI files, not expecting to have that stuff there, but I wanted to know what they had on me.But they did have the towns my mother and father lived in in Russia. They had the grocery store I worked in when I was 11 years old.”

Knows Writing Years Wanted Mother Father Names Stuff Boys Research Towns Stores Russia Holes Clothings Expecting Boston Files Fbi Groceries Mother And Father Grocery Stores

Author:Nat Hentoff

“Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.”

Easy Cities Towns Stores These Days Restaurants Friendly Vegetarian Vegan Health Food

Author:Moby

“You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.”

People Streets Mom Towns Pops Stores Kicking Main Street

Author:Dennis Quaid

“Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.”

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Author:Tom Bodett

“Do y’all have enough stun guns for them? (Madaug) Does a bear defecate rurally? What kind of question is that for someone who owns the biggest gun store in town? Of course I got plenty. I got enough Tasers to light up New York City AND Boston just for giggles. (Bubba)”

Kind Doe Enough Light Courses Cities New York Bears Gun Towns Stores Plenty New York City Boston Light Up Giggle Bubba Tasers

Book:Chronicles of Nick

Source: Chronicles of Nick

“She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.”

Speak Towns Stores Miles Transportation Sidewalk Stunned Namesake Public Transportation

Book:The Namesake: A Novel

Source: The Namesake: A Novel

“I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.”

Inspirational Years Long Support Heard Towns Mere Stores Discounts

Author:Sam Walton

“I adore vintage clothes. When I go on the road doing auditions for So You Think You Can Dance, I always research the cities we're traveling to so I know where all the best vintage stores are. There are several stores and flea markets I love here in LA. Shareen is amazing with the best edit in town! Golyester is great. I really enjoy the Rose Bowl market. A word of warning: wear layers, comfortable shoes, be prepared to hunt, and fuel yourself with a bucket of cappuccino! Enjoy!”

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