Karl Pilkington Quotes
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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To me, country songs are simple.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.
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Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
