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.
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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 realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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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.
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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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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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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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The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
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To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
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Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story.
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I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
