Karl Pilkington Quotes
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
Quotes to Explore
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
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There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.
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I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
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Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
