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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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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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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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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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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The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
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Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.
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Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion.
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When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.
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The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
