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• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Paris, Glasses

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• My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Next, Troll

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• Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Travel, Keys, Food Culture

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• How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Glasses, People, Tourism

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• Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

  Brian De Palma

  Ideas, Scary, Kind

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• [A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.

  Paul Bowles

  Civilization, Differences, Important

  Paul Bowles (2000). “The Paul Bowles reader”

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• Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Philosopher, Scientist

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.113, Princeton University Press

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• When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the field for lack of harvesters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Law, Numbers, People

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• What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

  John Cage

  Attitude, People, Brass

  "Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music". Book by John Cage, January, 1996.

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• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  A. N. Wilson

  Kings, Queens, Eerie

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• The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

  Guillaume Musso

  Facts, Impossible, Time Travel

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• Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

  Annie Dillard

  People, Church, Cheerful

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.173, Canongate Books

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• The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart?

  Bill McKibben

  Time, Shopping, August

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• After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

  Edgar Bergen

  Travel, Years, Tourism

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• I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Airplane, Years, Flying

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• My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Travel, Reading, Writing

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

  Robert Morley

  Long, Tourism, British

  "Death of Baron De Kalb" by Benjamin Franklin Ells, 1849.

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• Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

  Terry Pratchett

  Idiot, Decided, Rincewind

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• I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

  Brian Setzer

  Tourism, Gone, Gears

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• The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

  Klaus Kinski

  Sex, Real, Gypsy

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

  Louis C. K.

  Prisoner, Perversion

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• In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

  Vanessa Mae

  Summer, Sunset, Sunday

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• We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important things is to be a good human being.

  Dalai Lama

  Life Changing, Heart, Animal

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.358, Penguin Books India

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• Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

  Satish Kumar

  Nature, Earth, Way

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• Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Stress, Long, Car

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.49, University of Arizona Press

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