Charlie Brooker Quotes
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The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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Forgotten is forgiven.
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I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren't unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want.
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I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.
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My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'
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Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.
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Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.
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'Don’t preach,' said Florentine violently. She was beginning to see the maze of lies and deceptions that lay before her.
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There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
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When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
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There is no wrong time to do the right thing.
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A cupcake is just a muffin with clown puke topping.
