Michael Parkinson Quotes
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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I want to be up front racing.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.
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Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
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It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.
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Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.
