Charlie Brooker Quotes

I'm scared about everything. I'm an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.

Charlie Brooker

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• My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Focus
  • Worry
  • Personality

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Character
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Game
  • Focus

• I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Worry
  • Books
  • Fan

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Great
  • You
  • Worry

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Mom
  • Smart
  • Yourself

• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Smile

• You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Short

• Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Job
  • Worry

• If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Up
  • Future
  • Morning

• Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Everything
  • Because
  • Going

• If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Children
  • Worry

• I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  

  Gary Larson
  • People
  • Work
  • Ideas

• With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Study
  • Creative

• Movies are too literal.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Movies
  • Too
  • Literal

• Goonies are good enough, good enough for me

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Good Enough

• Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system, properly carried out according to the order of heaven, is far superior to monogamy for the raising of healthy, robust children!

  

  Brigham Young
  • Philosopher
  • Polygamy
  • Face of the earth

• I'm scared about everything. I'm an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Worry