Charlie Brooker Quotes

If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

Charlie Brooker

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• It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Control
  • Car

• I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Good
  • Home
  • Strong

• I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Attention
  • Talent

• The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Why
  • Brother
  • Stupid

• Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • Training
  • Conditions
  • Racing

• There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Different
  • Serious

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Kitchen
  • Opening

• When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • School
  • Money
  • Job

• Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Prosperity
  • Rather
  • Divide

• Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Union
  • Dishes
  • Unloved

• I choose work with the people I like to work with.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Choose

• We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Want
  • Old

• English superiority and American obedience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • American
  • English

• It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it.

  

  Davy Crockett
  • Popular

• That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library book. I think he was very smart and did more than fly a kite.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Book
  • Cool
  • Smart

• The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

  

  Kabir

• We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

  

  Carl Menger
  • Society
  • Planning
  • Social

• If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

  

  Charlie Brooker