Michael Palin Quotes

There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.

Michael Palin

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TravelEgoThinkBetterPerson

Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once but twice.

Jimmy Chin

LifeClimbMy LifeTwiceMostOnce

I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.

Jenny Lewis

TravelHappyPeopleMeFeelSee

Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too. Every key facet required for business success will fail when sleep becomes short within an organisation.

Matthew Walker

WorkSuccessBusinessTimeSleep

I definitely try to go above and beyond with live mixing and scratching.

Statik Selektah

LiveGoBeyondTryAboveMixing

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

Robert B. Parker

WorkBestReadingDoneAwayOur

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Marya Mannes

IntelligenceSocietyRealityPretend

My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!

Michael Patrick King

MeMomDoorYouHouseSay

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Louis Althusser

MenSocietyExistenceRespondAny

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Lou Holtz

GoodWinYouLoseBadSay

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

Judith Jamison

RacismTalkingYouCreateGoOwn

In concertos, I stand up, and I conduct with the bow when I'm not playing. During symphonies, I sit, but sometimes I stop playing to conduct. Being seated in a section allows me to feel more like we're playing chamber music, which is how I like to approach it.

Joshua Bell

MusicMeStand UpStandFeelStop

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

Dennis Brown

MusicThinkMoreTasteI Think

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