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.
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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.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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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.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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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.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
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There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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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.
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What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
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The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
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No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.
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Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.
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Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.
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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.
