Michael Palin Quotes
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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I'm not a negative person.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.
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I've been a free man.
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War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
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I get a lot of comments from people that I remind them of a young Tom Hanks.
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Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable.
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Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
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In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
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I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
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One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
