Karl Pilkington Quotes

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

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• Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Some
  • Harry Potter

• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Want
  • Beauty
  • Theatre

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Sensitive

• Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Perfect
  • Desire
  • Universe

• That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Life
  • Younger

• I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Man

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • America
  • Eating

• Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fighting

• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Once
  • Criminal
  • Disgrace

• I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Night

• I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Laugh
  • Afraid
  • Jerk

• You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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  • Day
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• I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Dream
  • Looks
  • Expectations

• The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • People
  • Space
  • Bored

• I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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