Michael Palin quote: "I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble."

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
MICHAEL PALIN

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. Th...
MICHAEL PALIN

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to f...
MICHAEL PALIN

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some peopl...
MICHAEL PALIN

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that bette...
MICHAEL PALIN

There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk...
MICHAEL PALIN

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get thro...
MICHAEL PALIN

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect...
MICHAEL PALIN

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop ...
MICHAEL PALIN

Ronnie could turn himself into any character. He did it with an effortless ease.
MICHAEL PALIN

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teac...
MICHAEL PALIN

Eric Idle 's Personal Best,
MICHAEL PALIN

Around the World in Eighty Days
MICHAEL PALIN

a straightforward, down-to-earth man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh - p...
MICHAEL PALIN

great wit, a great sense of humor.
MICHAEL PALIN

The American dimension to Python happened quite late. People said they weren't interested, and we'd ...
MICHAEL PALIN

Do Not Adjust Your Set ... Monty Python's Flying Circus.
MICHAEL PALIN

I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the c...
MICHAEL PALIN

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to und...
MICHAEL PALIN

I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody...
MICHAEL PALIN

There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. Bu...
MICHAEL PALIN

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.
MICHAEL PALIN

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.
MICHAEL PALIN

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps...
MICHAEL PALIN

There was a mixture there and it was a rather pleasant mixture, and I think it helped him a lot in t...
MICHAEL PALIN

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really beli...
MICHAEL PALIN

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
MICHAEL PALIN

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be ...
MICHAEL PALIN

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly...
MICHAEL PALIN

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part...
MICHAEL PALIN

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
MICHAEL PALIN

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on ...
MICHAEL PALIN

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected un...
MICHAEL PALIN

We were amazed at the enthusiasm of American audiences.
MICHAEL PALIN

Always look on the bright side of life. (Monty Python)
MICHAEL PALIN

Of course there is a huge in our material welfare, religious upbringing, and things like that. But t...
MICHAEL PALIN

Ronnie was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh.
MICHAEL PALIN

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.
MICHAEL PALIN

And one of them turned to me, ... and said, 'Oh my God! Eric Idle!'
MICHAEL PALIN

All right, now we're going to make a sketch.
MICHAEL PALIN

I can't think of anyone who knew how to play comedy better than Ronnie Barker and I count myself eno...
MICHAEL PALIN

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's g...
MICHAEL PALIN

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't...
MICHAEL PALIN

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
MICHAEL PALIN

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected un...
MICHAEL PALIN

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a for...
MICHAEL PALIN

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; ...
MICHAEL PALIN

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
MICHAEL PALIN

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was ...
MICHAEL PALIN

The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's ...
MICHAEL PALIN

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.
MICHAEL PALIN

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer....
MICHAEL PALIN

I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhe...
MICHAEL PALIN

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephem...
MICHAEL PALIN

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable ...
MICHAEL PALIN

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own...
MICHAEL PALIN

Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great.
MICHAEL PALIN

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
SARAH PALIN

I'm in no rush. One day I'll find a nice guy.
BRISTOL PALIN

Buck up or stay in the truck.
SARAH PALIN

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull ...
SARAH PALIN

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.
BRISTOL PALIN

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don...
SARAH PALIN

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that...
SARAH PALIN

If a mistake is made the honorable thing to do is to own up to it.' Of course I was talking about Le...
BRISTOL PALIN

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity...
SARAH PALIN

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'...
SARAH PALIN

America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a li...
SARAH PALIN

The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our ...
SARAH PALIN

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to c...
SARAH PALIN

It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerfu...
SARAH PALIN

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have t...
SARAH PALIN

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new Engli...
SARAH PALIN

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.
SARAH PALIN

...He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one eff...
SARAH PALIN

...Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country....
SARAH PALIN

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they...
SARAH PALIN

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
SARAH PALIN

I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allo...
SARAH PALIN

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my l...
BRISTOL PALIN

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.
SARAH PALIN

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington ...
SARAH PALIN

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.
SARAH PALIN

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share ...
SARAH PALIN

The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the unifor...
SARAH PALIN

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I ...
SARAH PALIN

We eat, therefore we hunt.
SARAH PALIN

I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. Th...
SARAH PALIN

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right ...
SARAH PALIN

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new o...
SARAH PALIN

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops c...
SARAH PALIN

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and ...
SARAH PALIN

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, ve...
SARAH PALIN

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create n...
SARAH PALIN

I love my baby more than anything. He's like a Gerber baby. He's the cutest baby in the whol...
BRISTOL PALIN

I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right wa...
BRISTOL PALIN

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there i...
SARAH PALIN

I came across an article recently that reported how growing numbers of employers today complain that...
SARAH PALIN

Hope is not a strategy,
SARAH PALIN

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy ...
SARAH PALIN

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of per...
SARAH PALIN

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.
SARAH PALIN

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wro...
SARAH PALIN

And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not bei...
SARAH PALIN

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
SARAH PALIN

Well, let's see. There's—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that th...
SARAH PALIN

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that e...
SARAH PALIN

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since ou...
SARAH PALIN

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.
SARAH PALIN

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. ...
SARAH PALIN

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for year...
SARAH PALIN

I'm a normal sized girl. I'm not a size double zero; I don't weigh 90 pounds. I'm a ...
BRISTOL PALIN

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for ...
SARAH PALIN

Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, whe...
SARAH PALIN

Well, then what the federal government should have done was accept the assistance of foreign countri...
SARAH PALIN

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the...
SARAH PALIN

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth c...
MICHAEL GOUGH

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le...
MICHAEL SHANNON

You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
MICHAEL MINA

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE

I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&...
MICHAEL SYMON

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF

There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag...
MICHAEL PATERNITI

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se...
MICHAEL JACKSON

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e...
MICHAEL JACKSON

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and cha...
MICHAEL JACKSON

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...
MICHAEL JACKSON

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
MICHAEL STRAHAN

I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.
MICHAEL CARBONARO

To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
MICHAEL KORDA

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's...
MICHAEL BUBLE

Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND

The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND

I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN

It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl...
MICHAEL POLLAN

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca...
MICHAEL LEUNIG

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
MICHAEL HANEKE

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr...
MICHAEL ROOKER

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle...
MICHAEL LEUNIG

A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.
MICHAEL KORS

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE

If you copy then it is not self-expression.
MICHAEL SCHENKER

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both w...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.
MICHAEL ASTON

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want peo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for tr...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
MICHAEL MORPURGO

The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
MICHAEL MORPURGO

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you wi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a schoo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to undere...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at a...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwritin...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of ...
MICHAEL KORS

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

Michael Palin

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