Borders Quotes - Page 11

• The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

  William Feather

  People, Want, Pressure

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• The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

  Raul Labrador

  Hate, Needs, Ridiculous

  "Is Labrador GOP immigration key?" by Marin Cogan, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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• I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.'

  Veruschka von Lehndorff

  Russia, Black, Germany

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

  Astro Teller

  Bravery, Innovation, Leap

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• Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Thank God, Trying, Coast

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• Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Jealous, Language, Crosses

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• It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Lying, Gambling, Offering

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• The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. This novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

  Milan Kundera

  Courage, Character, Discovery

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• Once we have the infrastructure in Africa, it should not be blocked by borders.

  Jacob Zuma

  Growth, Should, Infrastructure

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• Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Icons, Generations, Mexico

  "Chespirito, the Mexican comedian who inspired Simpsons character, dies at 85" by Andrew Johnson, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2014.

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• I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.

  James V. Schall

  Couple, Plato, Book

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• Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

  Margaret Mead

  Integrity, Ocean, Communication

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• I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.

  Eva Longoria

  Running, High Heels, Immigration

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• We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Should Have, Germany, Jew

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• When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Missing, Watches, Layers

  "A god among animators" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

  Sarah

  Voting, Politician, Should

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• We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?

  Sarah

  Thinking, Ironic, Hustle

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• America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

  Pierce Brosnan

  America, Childhood, Ending Hunger

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• Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.

  Robert Moss

  Distance, Twilight, Bridges

  Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.158, New World Library

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• Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. The centerpiece might be tax reform, both corporate and individual. It is needed, popular and doable. Then go for the low-hanging fruit enjoying wide bipartisan support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas exports, most especially to Eastern Europe. One could then add border security, energy deregulation and health-care reform that repeals the more onerous Obamacare mandates.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Winning, Obamacare, White

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• Mexico extends beyond its borders.

  Vicente Fox

  Political, Immigration, Mexico

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• Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Passion, Mean

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• Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Texas, Order, Understanding

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• On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Safety, Tree, Tanks

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2000). “Interpreter of Maladies”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.

  John Diefenbaker

  Rights, Maintenance, Heritage

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