Michael Palin Quotes
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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I was always very quiet, and I think everyone thought that was because I was a good child. I'd sit there in silence, but it wasn't until my mother was calling me one day when I was very young that she realised something was wrong because I wasn't responding.
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I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.
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I still have a sweet tooth, so I bake a lot, but I'd much rather have one of my sweet potato brownies than a processed chocolate bar.
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As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.
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There is only one 'retirement plan' for terrorists.
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We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
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On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves.
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I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
