Charlie Brooker Quotes
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
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The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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I always wanted to do something completely different.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
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Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
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In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
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When I look into the Ericsson's mobility report that has predictions till 2018, the majority of people having mobile broadband by 2018 will be on 3G.
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If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
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We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.
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With the country moving toward inclusion, the leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have instead sent a message to young people that only some of them are valued. They've chosen to teach division and intolerance.
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Balls to aspiration, it's a tosser's mirage.
