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• When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

  Jamie Foxx

  Growing Up, Destiny, Thinking

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

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• One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Vacation, Attachment, People

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.12, Macmillan

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Pits, Maps, Planning

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.237, Penguin

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• In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

  Anthony Bourdain

  New Orleans, America, Might

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• The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Medicine, Fields

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• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Travel, Adventure

  "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

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• What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

  Alice Cooper

  Golf, Play, Scotland

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• I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Beautiful, Beach, Water

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• If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

  Park Chan-wook

  Home, Vacation, Ifs

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• Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Journey, Weakness, Before Death

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.831, Macmillan

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• You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Self, Finals, Infatuation

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

  Peter Watts

  Running, Climbing, Dancer

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.302, Macmillan

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• Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

  Alain de Botton

  Trying, Truthful, Should

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2013

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• Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.

  Tahir Shah

  Skeletons, Years, Elephants

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• From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Order, Government, Ottomans

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• We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

  John Berger

  Invisible, Draws, Accompany

  John Berger (2011). “Bento's Sketchbook”, p.10, Pantheon

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• Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

  Steve McCurry

  Journey, Happens

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• Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

  May Sarton

  Pigeons, Flight

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• Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Character, Being Positive, Atheism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1820, Delphi Classics

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• In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They live out their lives. They die. Some of the ones that die explode. Our sun will not be one of those, but it will die. And it'll take Earth with us. So we make sure we have other destinations in mind when that happens. And I've got it on my calendar.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Mind, Energy

  "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's one-man mission". "60 minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 22, 2015.

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• There's no destination. There's no getting anywhere. There's just the going. The key to life is to make the going really fun. Because people that are like, “If I just get to this, then boom!” And then they get there and there's this dawning of an afterwards. Whereas I'm just always in the going. And it's not a frantic going like, “I gotta keep going or I'm gonna go nuts!” I can not do anything for weeks or months if I need to and just sit and read books or watch movies. I'm just as fine consuming and absorbing new art as I am trying to make it. But it's all in the going.

  Patton Oswalt

  Art, Fun, Book

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

  Charles Sheeler

  Journey, Battle, Trying

  Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press

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• Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, Journey, Love Is

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.266, Ballantine Books

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• It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.

  R. S. Thomas

  Hurt, Heart, Too Late

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.62, Hachette UK

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