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• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  Jack White

  Home, White, Stripes

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

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• The whole world knows that American TV companies have monopolized Olympic broadcasts and in order to please the fans in their country they do everything they can to keep American viewers interested in what is going on at the hockey rink in Sochi. According to their logic, Americans should always win, no matter what. It was absolutely obvious that [Fyodor] Tyutin's goal yesterday should have been allowed. This was clear to the whole world except the American referee, American TV and those officials with American passports who rule international hockey, grossly neglecting all Olympic principles.

  Ivan Ilyin

  Country, Hockey, Winning

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• Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

  Rick Owens

  Fashion, Book, Pockets

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• Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

  Katharine Brush

  Reality

  Katharine Brush (1940). “This is on Me”, New York : Farrar & Rinehart

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• You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.

  George Harrison

  Religious, Jesus, Religion

  Song: Awaiting On You All, 1970

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• The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Reading, Class, Poetry

  Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith”

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• There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

  Ani DiFranco

  Heart, My Heart, Brutal

  Song: Animal, Album: Educated Guess, 2004

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• We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Practice, Cities

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• It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.

  Martin Amis

  Home, Writing, Holiday

  "The Sadistic Muse". Interview with Laura Miller, February 10, 1998.

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• We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. NEWTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NEWTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NEWTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.

  John Lennon

  Music, Country, Law

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• Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

  Agatha Christie

  Christian, Mother, Princess

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• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  Carlos Gavito

  Music, Dance, Thinking

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• People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now,
  George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Photography, Believe, People

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• In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.

  Ben Kingsley

  Taken, Fog, England

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• I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

  John Guare

  Real, Believe, Imagination

  John Guare (2010). “Six Degrees of Separation”, p.22, A&C Black

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• In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Exile, Ifs

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Travel, Movement

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• These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

  Harry Belafonte

  Education, Country, Children

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• we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.

  Amartya Sen

  Education, Fighting, Goes On

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• Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There is a big purpose behind it. And the purpose is that now you have to know your Spirit, by which you enter into the Kingdom of God. You have to enter into the Kingdom of God. How? What is your passport? Is your Spirit. Because when the Spirit starts shining within you, you start transforming. You start transforming into a new being - into a new personality with a new awareness and you are a different person. Your priorities change.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.

  Bruce Feiler

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

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• The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

  Meg Rosoff

  Soldier, Black, Letters

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• My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dad, People, Immigration

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• I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.

  Saul Williams

  Destiny, Self, Soul

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• Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Literature, Zone

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.266, Macmillan

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