British - Comedian | May 5, 1943 -
People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
Michael Palin
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I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
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Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.
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I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.
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I will die, but not retire.
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Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
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I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.
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The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
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There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.
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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
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I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
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I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
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