Karl Pilkington Quotes
People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.
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Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
