Charlie Brooker Quotes

We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

Charlie Brooker

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• I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • See
  • Being
  • Far

• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Love
  • Power
  • Evil

• It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Myself

• To lead people walk behind them.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Walk
  • Lead

• I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Tennis

• Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Hands
  • Television
  • Rules

• I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Always
  • Year
  • Actress

• There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Question
  • Stupid

• My mum wanted me to go to university.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Me
  • Go
  • University

• Baseball is just my job.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Job
  • Baseball
  • Just

• Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • True
  • Man
  • Black

• 'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • True
  • Dream
  • Come

• I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Fear
  • Losing

• I've been up the coast of St-Barts, playing with spidermonkies, tripping on acid. Changed my whole perspective on shit.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Perspective

• 'I took care of the depth of my relationship with God and He took care of the breadth of my success.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Success
  • Relationship

• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that in-forms the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• A lot of times, people think 'para' as far as 'paralyzed.' 'Para' means 'alongside,' so the Paralympics are alongside the Olympics on the same courses, the same hills.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • People

• We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies- and were important to the production of that object, whether it’s our food or our clothes or our iPads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Important
  • Education
  • Food

• So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • America
  • Giving

• I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• Yes. I'm alone.I would have thought there to be worse fates than this, but now I know there are none. Man is no island. We need those who love us. We need those who hate us. We need others to tether us to life, to give us a reason to live, to feel.

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hate

• We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

  

  Charlie Brooker