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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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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I feel that destiny is a mixture of preparation and luck. You can be very lucky, but it is useless if you're not prepared. You can be prepared, but it is useless if you're not lucky.1
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I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.
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The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
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A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.
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'Beck-Ola' is a weird album.
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Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.
