Passports Quotes - Page 2

• The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Inspiring, Freedom, Party

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

  Zadie Smith

  Country, Men, Stills

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• He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

  Graham Greene

  Liars, Lying, Territory

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Knows

  Source: www.electriccereal.com

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• The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like going for the draw and puts armed men out of countinence

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wise, Travel, Men

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.22, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, America, Way

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• I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Country, Travel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Song, Coffee, Believe

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.39, Penguin

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• My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

  Steve McCurry

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

  "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.

  Emily Haines

  New York, People, Wish

  "Taking Measurements". Interview with Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

  Jack Higgins

  Ira, Looks, Staff

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• We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Firsts, Born, Stamps

  "Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.

  Seamus Heaney

  Green, Ifs

  'Open Letter' (Field Day pamphlet no. 2, 1983) p. 9, rebuking the editors of 'The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry' for including him among its authors

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• I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

  Holly Black

  Cat, Kissing, Airports

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Trying, Borders

  Interview with Crystal Wilkinson, appalachianheritage.net. November 20, 2014.

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• Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Men

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• Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Fashion, Kindness, Heart

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• There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Artist, Opportunity

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• A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.

  Phyllis Diller

  Men, Laughing, Looks

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• When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

  Arsene Wenger

  Quality, Clubs, Values

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• I do so much travelling in my work that my suitcase is always packed, with my passport ready. I rarely unpack, as I am constantly on the move.

  Jools Holland

  Moving, Suitcases, Ready

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• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  Carlos Gavito

  Music, Dance, Thinking

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• There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

  Ani DiFranco

  Heart, My Heart, Brutal

  Song: Animal, Album: Educated Guess, 2004

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• It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.

  Martin Amis

  Home, Writing, Holiday

  "The Sadistic Muse". Interview with Laura Miller, February 10, 1998.

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• With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?

  Brooklyn Decker

  Jamaica, Parent, Pay

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