Passports Quotes - Page 4

• I've always felt, and I don't like to say this because I sound like an ex-patriot, I always feel quite a bit more comfortable sometimes in Canada. For a variety of reasons. I just think it's a politer place. Kind of. You don't have quite the population to deal with but you don't immediately get into skirmishes with everybody. If you had any passport, any terrorist would let the Canadians off the plane.

  Tim Allen

  Thinking, Sound, Population

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• In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

  Alan Parsons

  Russia, Special, Shows

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

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• Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me. I was not mistreated or harmed, but I was also not allowed to leave.

  Greg Mortenson

  Taken, Eight, Mistreated

  "Greg Mortenson responds to '60 Minutes' questions about his 'Three Cups of Tea' story". Response to a "60 Minutes" report, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 18, 2011.

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• I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Moving, Identity, Needs

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• The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

  Chris Cornell

  People, Citizens, May

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• The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as Christians view their God; they worship and adore the state and they render their lives and fortunes to it. Statists believe that their lives - their very being - are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is - and should be - dependent on the consent of the government. Thus, statists support such devices as income taxation, licensing laws, regulations, passports, trade restrictions, and the like.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Christian, Believe, Views

  Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”

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• When I'm applying for a new passport, or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

  Kit Harington

  Call Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.

  Dave Barry

  Sheep, Europe, Looks

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.

  Tom Waits

  Attitude, Blue, Suitcases

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• No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are

  Brigham Young

  Men, Kingdoms, Juniors

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• We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

  Matthew Simpson

  Joy, Shining, Comfort

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Morning, Peace

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• I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Running, Animal, Two

  "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

  George Orwell

  Country, War, America

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Giving, Support, Brilliant

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.232

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• Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

  Elton Gallegly

  Long, Green, Visitors

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• Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Book, Reading, Childhood

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.

  Saul Williams

  Destiny, Self, Soul

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• My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dad, People, Immigration

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• The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

  Meg Rosoff

  Soldier, Black, Letters

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• Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.

  Bruce Feiler

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There is a big purpose behind it. And the purpose is that now you have to know your Spirit, by which you enter into the Kingdom of God. You have to enter into the Kingdom of God. How? What is your passport? Is your Spirit. Because when the Spirit starts shining within you, you start transforming. You start transforming into a new being - into a new personality with a new awareness and you are a different person. Your priorities change.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.

  Amartya Sen

  Education, Fighting, Goes On

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• These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

  Harry Belafonte

  Education, Country, Children

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• However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Travel, Movement

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