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Michael Palin Quotes

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: May 5, 1943

Topics

Day People Thought One Day Saw Them

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Home Bible Reading Appetite Taught

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Money Play Make Would Still Horn

'One Million Bullets' is my baby.

Baby Bullets Million

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

Good Empathy Stupid Think You Class

I grew up listening to a lot of early '90s hip-hop. I had the debut Wu-Tang album, Biggie, Snoop, that kind of stuff. Hieroglyphics, the Gravediggaz. I remember D.O.C.'s 'The Portrait of a Masterpiece' was something that had a big influence on me.

Me Listening Influence Portrait Kind

People say how come I'm from Scotland yet I sound like the Queen?! I went to boarding school in Somerset, which has probably got something to do with it.

School Queen People Say Sound Come

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Children World Society Moral Kind

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

Work Music Listening Trying Hide

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

Coretta Scott King

Life Happiness Money Spiritual Happy

My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in concert, helping protecting the mushrooms - and us - from microbial pathogens.

Work Team Rich New Study Over

I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.

Shaun Alexander

Loving Him Always Up Used Film

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

Music Interest Only Celtic Certainly

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