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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
