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• No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.

  Amos Oz

  Being Real, Birth, Humans

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• I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

  Richie Havens

  People, Singing, Purpose

  "Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.

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• In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.

  Amos Oz

  Years, Facts, Individual

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

  Mother Teresa

  America, India, Albania

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been preparing for half a year. I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there - any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog. I'm just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Years, Chinese

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.

  Anna Quindlen

  Country, California, Diversity

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

  Christopher Hitchens

  United States, Cards, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.

  Gillian Anderson

  Doors, America, People

  "I'm not good at playing the game" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2005.

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• If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

  David K. Shipler

  Airports, Tasks, Borders

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• Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

  Anton Chekhov

  Travel, Language, Feels

  Anton Chekhov's letter to A.S. Suvorin, November 1889.

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• It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Respect, Queens, Believe

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• Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

  Dean Rusk

  Rights, Citizens, Georgia

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• Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Art, Book, Fate

  "Books hold no passport – Carlos Ruiz Zafón discusses The Shadow of the Wind". Interview with Steve Porter, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.

  Zadie Smith

  Country, Mean, Animal

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.413, Penguin UK

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• Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

  Susan Sontag

  Get Well Soon, Health, Sick

  New York Review of Books 26 Jan. 1978

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• People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they do, but those who enroll just because they think that the mere possession of a college degree is the passport to success will just dig themselves a financial hole.

  George Leef

  College, Thinking, Later In Life

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• If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.

  Vivian Fuchs

  Travel, Looks, Like You

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• If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Lying, Healing, Fighting

  Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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• For He hath prepared for them a City! Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to have any passport nor visa problems, they're not going to have to make sure you've got enough money to stay there awhile, it's YOUR town, your Hometown in Heaven, praise God? And they're all going to be your people! We're just going to be one nationality of one nation, ...we just haven't found the place yet, we haven't gotten there yet!

  David Berg

  Cities, People, Heaven

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• Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."

  Pico Iyer

  Light, Japan, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

  Chuck D

  World, Might, Ifs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was in China this year and I spent three weeks there with no luggage, in a really not very nice place and without anything except my passport and my wallet. You're a long way from home and you've got no phone and you can't get in touch with anybody.

  Jill Douglas

  Nice, Home, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, Bhutan, Progress

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• If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.

  Earl Wilson

  Travel, Journey, Needs

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