Karl Pilkington Quotes
If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
