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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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
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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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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.
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I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life
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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
