Karl Pilkington Quotes
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
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I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
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If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'
