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Travel Quotes
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
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"I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects."
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"You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city."
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"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
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"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection."
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"I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with."
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"We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions."
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"I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure."
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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."
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"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go."
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"I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone."
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"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."
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"Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam."
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"It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep."
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"What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits, this is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling, and I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing. Pleasure takes us away from ourselves in the same way as distraction, in Pascal's use of the word, takes us away from God. Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves."
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"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
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"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
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"You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering."
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"Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen."
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"Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa."
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"There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her."
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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
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"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
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"We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just traveling, like. I had a minister that lived here. He was in St. Louis and he said things was going so well and that it was such a wonderful place."
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"Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by."
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
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"I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something."
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"The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up."
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"When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat."
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"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
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"We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
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"An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel."
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"You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel."
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"I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place."
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