Karl Pilkington Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
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Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.
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Take advantage of every moment, live in the present.
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The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
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Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
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Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?
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It's like a pylon.
