Michael Palin Quotes

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

Michael Palin

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• Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Actor
  • Critics
  • Golfer

• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Fire

• My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Help

• I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.

  

  Ed Lee
  • Start
  • Grow
  • Big

• It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Education
  • Support

• The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Men
  • Words
  • Inspired

• My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Me

• The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Questions
  • Personal

• You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Good
  • Find
  • Boredom

• I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Better

• When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Help
  • House
  • Water

• I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Comedy
  • Before
  • Material

• When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Growing

• The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Generation

• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Tomorrow
  • Possible

• When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Different
  • Live
  • Friends

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  

  Oskar Werner
  • Movies
  • Married
  • Mistress

• You know, being Jewish is problematic. Most people really don't know what exactly it means to be a Jew. We belong to a community of suffering, and that's what binds us together. But we are also extremely diverse. That's something I wish people who hate Jews as a group because they think they're so different would understand. We're also completely different within our own group! Essentially, we're just part of a community that has suffered a great deal, and not just in the Holocaust.

  

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
  • Community
  • Jews
  • Suffered

• Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Song
  • Meaningful
  • Mess

• I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

  

  Daniil Kharms
  • Absurd
  • Manifestation
  • Practicals

• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Person

• I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

  

  Michael Palin
  • Person
  • Doomed
  • Seemed