Michael Parkinson Quotes
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.
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In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.
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There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?
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Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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No one knows what women want!
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
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After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.
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You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.
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So we may look at this and say, ‘We are tampering with the earth.’ The earth is a twitchy system. It’s clear from the record that it does things that we don’t fully understand. And we’re not going to understand them in the time period we have to make these decisions. We just know they’re there. We may say, ‘We just don’t want to do this to ourselves.’ If it’s a problem like that, then asking whether it’s practical or not is really not going to help very much. Whether it’s practical depends on how much we give a damn.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
