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World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served. -- David Bryant
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. -- Mick Jagger
Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. -- Tony Campolo
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate -- James Hillman
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. -- Cyril Connolly
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped. -- Adam Gopnik
I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose. -- Jarvis Cocker
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. -- Paul Theroux
I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place. -- Bharati Mukherjee
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs. -- Ernest Hemingway
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. -- Paul Auster
I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway". -- Isaac Asimov
[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious. -- Susan Minot

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