Michael Palmer Quotes

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

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• September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Life
  • History
  • Day

• It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Good
  • High

• I always wanted pink hair.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Pink

• What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Life
  • Done
  • Success

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Thought
  • News
  • Journalism

• I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Miss

• There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Problem
  • Easy
  • Solution

• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Habit
  • Speech

• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Equal

• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Science
  • Crazy
  • Poverty

• 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Never
  • Movies
  • Lose

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Actor
  • Autobiography
  • Biography

• The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • America
  • Friendship
  • 9/11 attacks

• I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Sometimes
  • Pretense
  • Posing

• I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Work
  • Why
  • Home

• What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Future
  • Past
  • Magic

• Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

  

  Michael Palmer
  • Sometimes
  • Figures
  • Bottom