Karl Pilkington Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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I love recording music.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.
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I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.
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We should all love animals.
