"Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me."

Travel, Englexample, Television

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"Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me."

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"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."

bell hooks, American Critic

Travel, Body, Living, Mind

"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived."

Carew Papritz, American Author

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"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."

Kenneth Koch, American Poet

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"Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul."

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"It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales."

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"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self."

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"I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin."

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"What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN."

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"Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling."

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"To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses."

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"Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore."

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