Michael Parkinson Quotes
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are guttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pack,And leave your friends and go.Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,Look not to left nor right:In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.
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Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.
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True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
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But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
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I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.
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'Alarm' and 'Ciao Adios' are about the same person, yeah.
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The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.
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Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
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I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.
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I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
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Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I'm right or wrong. And down the waterfall where ever it may take me I know that life won't break me when I come to call, she won't forsake me I'm loving angels instead.
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I'm very fond of piano players.
