Passports Quotes - Page 5

• Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Country, Encouragement, Thinking

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• She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Teacher, Strong, Home

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 18 (1850)

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• Viajo mucho. Mucho, muchísimo. No tengo ni un solo pasaporte que no tenga páginas extra.

  Bo Derek

  Pages, Extras

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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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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• 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

  "La voz del Magreb". Entrevista con Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. 5 de mayo de 2006.

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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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• Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot of people are still unaware that I never intended to end up in Russia. They're not aware that journalists were live-tweeting pictures of my seat on the flight to Latin America I wasn't able to board because the US government revoked my passport.

  Edward Snowden

  Latin, Reading, Media

  Fuente: www.thenation.com

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• An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

  Sergio Leone

  Taken, Italian, Men

  Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. September 1987.

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• A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Travel, Government

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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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• US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.

  Edward Snowden

  Russia, Order, People

  Fuente: www.thenation.com

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• Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans.

  Geert Wilders

  People, Netherlands, Syria

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• No necesitas pasaporte ni visados, no necesitas designar ni emigrar para poder ver a Jesús.

  George Harrison

  Religioso, Jesús, Religión

  Canción: Awaiting On You All, 1970

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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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• Tengo un bebé pequeño, lo hice yo... No habla, tiene 2 años... Aprende despacio, sólo tiene 2 palabras... coche y mapa... Me preocupa un poco que intente escapar. ¡Si su próxima palabra es pasaporte estamos en serios problemas!

  Michael McIntyre

  Witty, Bebé, Coche

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• Digo que la lengua es un pasaporte. Un pasaporte dudoso y peligroso.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Dubious, Language, Dangerous

  "Writers attack 'overrated' Anglo-American literature at Jaipur festival" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2014.

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• The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

  Taiye Selasi

  Heart, Pages, Blank

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• Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué es tu identidad personal? Es lo que realmente eres, tu verdadero yo. Ninguno de nosotros es lo que cree que es, ni lo que los demás creen que es, ni mucho menos lo que su pasaporte dice que es. Y es una suerte para la mayoría de nosotros equivocarnos. Por lo general, no sabemos lo que nos conviene. Esto se debe a que, en el lenguaje de San Bernardo, nuestra verdadera personalidad se ha ocultado bajo el "disfraz" de un falso yo, el ego, al que tendemos a adorar en lugar de Dios.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Pensar, Uno Mismo

  "Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for: Selected Spiritual Writings".

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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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• I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

  Comarca de Warsan

  Airports, Language, Forget

  Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”

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• Hasta este momento he tenido el placer de confiar el gobierno de mis asuntos al difunto Cardenal. Ha llegado el momento de que los gobierne yo mismo. Vosotros [secretarios y ministros de Estado] me ayudaréis con vuestros consejos cuando os los pida. Os ruego y ordeno que no selléis ninguna orden si no es por orden mía... Os ordeno que no firméis nada, ni siquiera un pasaporte. . . sin mi orden; que me rindáis cuentas personalmente cada día y que no favorezcáis a nadie.

  Luis XIV

  Government, Order, Each Day

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• Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for.

  Brian Reade

  War, Believe, School

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• I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

  Amit Bhatia

  My Family, British, Indian

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• Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

  James Thomas Fields

  Kindness, Giving, World

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• Para llegar a la Tierra desde el borde del sistema solar, dependiendo de la época del año y de la posición de los planetas, hay que pasar al menos por Polonia, Prusia y Turquía, y probablemente te sellarían el pasaporte algunas de las otras grandes potencias. Luego, a medida que te acercas al mundo, llegas a un punto, en el continuamente cambiante espacio de carruajes sobre los países, en el que esta complejidad tiene que ceder o fracasar. Y así llegas a la dichosa lubricación del territorio orbital neutral.

  Paul Cornell

  País, Años, Pavos

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