Michael Palin Quotes

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

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• Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.

  

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• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

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• I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.

  

  Zosia Mamet
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• Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I hate to travel with stuff.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

  

  R. D. Laing
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• Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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• Phone networks can capture life on our planet.

  

  Carlo Ratti
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• Time, the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
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• It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.

  

  C. V. Raman
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• My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

  

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• I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
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• We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.

  

  Keith B. Alexander
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• People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

  

  David Brooks
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• If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.

  

  Barack Obama
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• To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'

  

  Ivan Turgenev
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• People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

  

  Michael Palin
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