Charlie Brooker Quotes
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
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The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.
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It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
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He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
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The politician is...trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
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The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.
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When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
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Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
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I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
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Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
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Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more.
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I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
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Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.
