Michael Palin Quotes
The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
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When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"
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The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
