Karl Pilkington Quotes

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

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• The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Me

• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Political
  • Small

• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • History
  • Science

• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Information
  • Speed

• I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • War
  • Feeling

• People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Movie
  • Man

• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Tough

• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Pain
  • Forever
  • Thought

• I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Child
  • Just
  • Rapper

• We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Challenge

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Guy
  • Television
  • Watch

• Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

  

  Ed Asner
  • War
  • Political
  • Japanese

• With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they're doing, so you're learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with.

  

  Luke Goss Bros
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Persons

• Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Computer

• We have barely tapped the power that is ours. We are more than we know.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Power
  • Know
  • More

• I am always struck by how difficult it is for people to see how much cruelty they are bringing not only upon animals but upon themselves and their loved ones and other people, how much we are screwing up the planet, how much we are hurting our own health, how hard it is to change all that, how eager people are to make a buck at everybody else's expense - all those things are discouraging.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • People
  • Up
  • Health

• I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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