Karl Pilkington Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.
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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
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Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
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The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.
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Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.
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If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.
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I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.
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Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.
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Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.
