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People Quotes by Michael Palin
- It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once…
- People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I…
- There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic -…
- Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world…
- Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
- I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
- I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
- I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.
- I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
- People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
- People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
- 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…
- You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're…
- I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
- [There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle