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title: "9 Like Immigrants Quotes by 9 authors"
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> [I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-izzard/i-don-t-know-what-it-s-like-in-the-u-s-but-immigrants-in-the-u-k-do/)

[Eddie Izzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-izzard/)

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> [“Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padma-lakshmi/like-many-immigrants-i-had-always-kept-my-eastern-and-western-lives/)

[Padma Lakshmi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padma-lakshmi/)

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> [Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-mead/parents-feel-like-immigrants-in-the-country-of-the-young/)

[Margaret Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-mead/)

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> [My grandfather on my dad's side was the first in our family to settle in the U.K. He came from Pakistan on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amir-khan/my-grandfather-on-my-dad-s-side-was-the-first-in-our-family-to-settle/)

[Amir Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amir-khan/)

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> [Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-zhang/karaoke-was-my-family-s-happy-secret-in-those-early-years-in-america/)

[Jenny Zhang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-zhang/)

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> [I served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and currently serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yet I still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-lieu/i-served-on-active-duty-in-the-u-s-air-force-and-currently-serve-in/)

[Ted Lieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-lieu/)

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> [Look, when I came to this country, my parents, like many immigrants, are looking for a better life. And in their minds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karine-jean-pierre/look-when-i-came-to-this-country-my-parents-like-many-immigrants-are/)

[Karine Jean-Pierre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karine-jean-pierre/)

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> [In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-postrel/in-the-fall-of-1978-i-left-the-religious-conservative-biracial-slow/)

[Virginia Postrel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-postrel/)

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> [“After all, we are all immigrants to the future; none of us is a native in that land. Margaret Mead famously wrote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-gorbis/after-all-we-are-all-immigrants-to-the-future-none-of-us-is-a-native/)

[Marina Gorbis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-gorbis/)

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