Karl Pilkington Quotes
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.
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To be dull is easy,
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I'm a natural blonde!
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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Concrete concepts are not necessarily the simplest ones. A novice best remembers 'being at' a concert. The amateur remembers more of what it 'sounded like.' Only the professional remembers the music itself, timbres, tones and textures.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
