Charlie Brooker Quotes
Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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I well recall my emotions when I came upon the grave of Beethoven in the Central Friedhof, with its incomparable guard of honor - Mozart, Schubert, Gluck, Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss!
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Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and - sans End!
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I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer gingerly round the corner, and perhaps we shall find there is nothing very formidable after all.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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We may well be ashamed to tell what things we have read or heard in our day. I do not know why my news should be so trivial, - considering what one's dreams and expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
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What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
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There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.
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Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.
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Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.
