Exotic Places Quotes

• You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

  Ken Jennings

  America, Want, Homesick

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• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

  Peter Agre

  Winter, Careers, Long

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• I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

  Campbell Scott

  Crazy, Years, Interesting

  "Campbell Scott on going Off the Map". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 10, 2005.

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• When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

  Halle Berry

  Fun, Thinking, Laughing

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• I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Inspiration, Expression, Ideas

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• Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

  Henning Mankell

  One Day, World, Ends

  "True crime" by Ian Thomson, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2003.

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• I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

  Evan Davis

  Party, Glasses, Office

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• I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued by it fairly soon, but enjoy thinking back on experiences when I've returned and then often wish I'd arranged a longer stay in the somewhat exotic place.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Home, Thinking, Long

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

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• I'll always love Paraguay. It's this most exotic place configured out of the imagination, the whole country.Paraguay will always be a special place in my heart. I go back a long way. I first arrived as a refugee in 1982 from the Falklands War. So it was a safe haven then, and it has become something exotic since then. I feel like I'd like the dust to settle a little bit before going back.

  John Gimlette

  Country, War, Heart

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

  Ray Metzker

  Needs, Nuance, Subjects

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• Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Reading, Journey

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• We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

  Paul Kurtz

  Art, Good Life, Cheer

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• Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.

  Teresa Mummert

  Falling In Love, Book, Reading

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• I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

  Richard Bode

  Wall, Men, Songbirds

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• My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

  Tony Judt

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives

  David Malouf

  People, Secret, Encounters

  FaceBook post by David Malouf from Oct 30, 2011

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• libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Land, Feelings

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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