Karl Pilkington Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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I would like to give evidence we can lead. And I think the only way we can do that is to unify the diversity of the party.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
