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Travel Quotes
"I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals."
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"Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther."
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"Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game."
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"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones."
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"I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place."
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"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
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"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
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"I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about."
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"People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live."
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"As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby."
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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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"We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem."
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"At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards."
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"As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception."
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"It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing."
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"It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot -- and I was on Vieques, where it was always hot and where New York and London and Rome were just names on a map."
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"To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself."
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"If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style."
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"And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble."
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"My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce."
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"I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't."
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"Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world."
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"People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses."
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"Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience."
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"I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?"
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"Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men."
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"Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place."
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"I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told."
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