“As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.”
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“Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.”
“My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.”
“My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.”
“The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.”
“Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.”
“Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.”
“There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.”
“I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.”
“Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.”
“At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.”
“All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.”
“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.”
“I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.”
“Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.”
“The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.”
“I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.”
“If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.”
“Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.”
“Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.”
“I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.”
“But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.”
“As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.”
“I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.”