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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The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease.
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At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.
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One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.
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Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.
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Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it.
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It's like a pylon.
