Michael Parkinson Quotes

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

Michael Parkinson

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YouCreateWayChemistryWhereNone

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey

DreamsWisdomYour DreamsDeathYou

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

Max Bill

KnowingFirstWithoutMadeStrip

Americans are right to believe the American Dream is fading. But that dream only became a possibility for white men as a result of the labor struggles and reforms of the New Deal, and it began to extend to minorities and women only after the civil rights and women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Stephanie Coontz

WomenMenAmerican DreamBelieveNew

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

Steven Hall

BedAlwaysFinishOpenUpSomething

My first job out of college was with HBO. I worked in a small sales office in Chicago. So, I can say that even when I was just a little, low-on-the-totem-pole assistant for HBO, they were always amazing.

Jazmyn Simon

JobCollegeAmazingSmallI CanSay

I think for anything to be successful, your problems have to become different problems over time.

Jason Isbell

TimeProblemsThinkBecomeAnything

I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

Janis Joplin

MeHellFeelAudienceThroughGoing

Obama had to save the banks, sure, but he didn't have to save the bankers and the shareholders and the bondholders. We broke the rules of capitalism in order to save those at the top - as we always do.

Joseph Stiglitz

CapitalismRulesTopAlwaysOrder

What's important is self-appreciation.

Donnie Wahlberg

Important

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.

Brendan Fraser

LifeBeautifulGreatWifeHappy

Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.

Brett Hull

FightMindLookJust BecauseSkating

I wanted to be Buck Owens and Bill Anderson and Roger Miller. With a higher-resolution video screen. And lasers.

Brad Paisley

ScreenVideoWantedBuckBillRoger

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