Michael Palmer Quotations

What you are seeing more often is 'I want to lie on the beach, but I also want to interview for an internship or share my knowledge.

Our travel segment is growing two to three times faster than the travel industry as a whole, We're seeing more organized group tours during the spring break time, and a lot wider diversity of travel destinations.

Party trips to spring break destinations have been flat or declining since 2000.

We know that travel is essential to a complete education. Traveling abroad teaches understanding of other people, cultures and communities, and these types of experiences offer young people a greater ability to be successful in today's global society.

Who wants to buy a beer from Brazil with a German name? What is that all about? The brand had no identity. It would be hard to convince people that a German beer from Brazil was worth an extra $20 a case.

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.

It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.

It was kind of ironic. I guess (Molson) wanted something there to replace Corona if Corona ever got pissed off, but the easiest way to piss off Corona was to put something there to replace it. It was an ill-conceived brand and a poorly executed campaign. A combination of the two doesn't usually result in much success.

This is a unique program and a national model for being a very innovative program.

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

If I had a raft, I would have a good time.

Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc., to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

You must have me confused with myself

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.