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Charlie Brooker

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• Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Beautiful
  • Tree
  • Uniform

• The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Financial
  • Integrity

• My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Up
  • Me
  • Dad

• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Power
  • Understand
  • Irony

• In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Job
  • You
  • Watching

• When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Fly

• The fairest garden in her looks,And in her mind the wisest books.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Mind
  • Garden

• I am going through with my barnstorming tour to the end. Bob Meusel and the other Yanks on my club agree with me that it will not hurt the game, as Landis fears. In fact, if anything, it will create more interest in next year's campaign for me to play out this tour. If Landis wants to put me out of organized baseball, let him do so. I will continue the tour.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Game
  • Hurt
  • Baseball

• While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Faith
  • Wish
  • Advice

• No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Respect

• There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Live

• 'He's quiet as well, especially if you stalk him.'

  

  Craig Ferguson

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Habit

• Fans talk to me about how 'Country Christmas' has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people's holiday traditions is a real joy.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Live
  • Perfect
  • Lonely

• In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Experience
  • Deep

• Life's a bowl of punch, go ahead and spike it!

  

  Nick Hexum
  • Life
  • Ahead
  • Punch

• The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Different
  • Universe

• Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Weird

• Online, you play at being yourself.

  

  Charlie Brooker