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I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

Karl Pilkington

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Karl Pilkington
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 23
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I'm a bit rubbish at knowing when something is good. But if it goes out and I can say, I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be, then I'll be happy. Until then, I'll be thinking, I shouldn't be here!
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.’
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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Cat food. It stinks a bit, but if you don't put up with the smell, the little kitten will die.
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They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species...
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?
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I find that if you just talk, your mouth comes up with stuff.
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People say if bees die out, the world would end apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document and people believe this.
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The Web is the new book though, innit?
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Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer.
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The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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People moan about drugs being tested on animals. I sort of think it depends innit. If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it right?
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