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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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.
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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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.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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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.
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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.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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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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In schools throughout the world God's but described to you. Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.
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People have seen me at my best, but I don't think most of them know everything that it took to get me to where I am today.
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Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
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I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!
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People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
