Michael Parkinson Quotes
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I've been really impressed with the way he has come back from the Under 21 World Cup and taken his form into club rugby.
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It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.
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In a way, it plays on your heart a little bit.
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Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
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People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?
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One of the issues I think is very important, in many communities of color, there's a stigma about mental health. We find that the shaming that comes from acknowledging that one may have some issues that may relate to mental health, often people are not willing to go and seek additional help because of that shaming or that cultural stigma that's associated with it. And I think that we need to make this change in how people approach mental health.
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It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.
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There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.