Michael Palin Quotes

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

Michael Palin

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FearYouDiscomfortSeekSomething

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

Jim Courier

MyselfMeSomeoneFeelingKindTry

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

Maurice Hinchey

HistoryRiverCountryDevelopment

I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it's one thing. He's singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don't find that Plan B idea motivating. I don't want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Jeff Bezos

WiseMeThinkMotivationPlanEarth

I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter.

Jeff Gannon

InformationHouseWhiteMatterGiven

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.

John Salley

ThinkEveryoneGreatestJustFanHe

To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.

Tom Sturridge

MountainsClimbDoingPersonEnglish

Like Iran and Syria supplied Hezbollah with sophisticated anti-tank rockets - Matisse, Cornet, and other RPGs that caused great damage to Israeli tanks and Israeli infantry in 2006 - they did the same in Gaza with Hamas.

Ronen Bergman

GreatSameTanksSophisticatedLike

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

Ronda Rousey

RespectKindAthleteFighterHim

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

Russell Tovey

TeacherHistoryPastYoungBecause

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

Michio Kaku

ComputersPlanProfessionalGo

I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry.

Molly Ivins

ThinkPressureMediaOwnershipBad

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

Douglas Wilson

BeginningFindingBeingSomething

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