Different Place Quotes

• We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

  Jackie Chan

  Peace, Responsibility, Diversity

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• Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Moving, Animal, Thinking

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• Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

  Terry Pratchett

  Change, Travel, Life Changing

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

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• If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Different, Wake Up, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Light, Years, Confusing

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Cat's Table”, p.274, Random House

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• There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice.

  Angeles Arrien

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• Within America, there are extremely different place. I'm not saying it's one homogenous color. It's obviously an incredible place. There's no other place like it, and it's incredibly diverse.

  Devendra Banhart

  Color, America, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  James McGreevey

  Different, Life Living, Integrated

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• I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Country, Travel, Kids

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• You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

  Van Morrison

  Different, Lines, Rhyming

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• I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Other Cultures, People

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• I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

  Olivia Munn

  Military, Different, Six

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• I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Sleep, Different, Used

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• I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.

  Conor Oberst

  Beautiful, Believe, Ideas

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• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  Bai Ling

  Thinking, Hollywood, Different

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• I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

  Sean Lennon

  Song, Different

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• In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

  Christopher Alexander

  Unique, Different, Environment

  Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.

  Phil Collins

  Stars, America, Texas

  "Pop star Phil Collins shows passion for all things Alamo". Interview with J. R. Gonzales, www.chron.com. May 04, 2012.

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• When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Who I Am, Mind, Singing

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• It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

  Cindy Crawford

  Sports, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

  Jill Scott

  Cutting, Different, World

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• A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

  Emma Donoghue

  Different, Situation, Novel

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• I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

  Jodie Foster

  Focus, Different, World

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• Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

  Jim Harrison

  Drama, Two, Different

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• My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Different, Literature

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