Michael Palin Quotes

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

Michael Palin

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• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • You
  • Economy

• I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Player

• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Together
  • Relationship

• Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nothing

• In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Friends
  • House
  • Liberty

• If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Appreciation
  • Shown

• We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Reason
  • Like
  • Act

• There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Great
  • Queen
  • Trap

• I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Popular
  • Differences

• I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Working

• My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Father
  • Knowledge
  • Care

• If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Mistakes
  • Discussion

• I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Mind
  • College

• We sent a guy called Terry Slater a couple of demos, using the last of our money. And then things turned. He landed us a deal with Warners and said just keep coming up with songs, because when success hits you, you won't even know your name.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Money
  • Success
  • Name

• Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.

  

  Eugenia Charles
  • Practice
  • Vision
  • Details

• I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

  

  Michael Palin
  • Religious
  • Problems
  • Leaders