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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
"There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay."
"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."
"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."
Explore more quotes by Michael Palin
"The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience."
"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 is the hope for the future."
"I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own."
"I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking."
"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 always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person."
"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 traveller."
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