Charlie Brooker Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charlie Brooker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
	Quotes to Explore 
		
	
	
	
	
	
		Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wayne Dyer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Conroy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				L. Neil Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Martin Kohe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pamela Meyer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold H. Greene 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. K. Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. D. Hayworth 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nadia Boulanger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nana Mouskouri 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Waldo Emerson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackson Browne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M.I.A. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Azar Nafisi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Matt Bomer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Hagman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Faith Popcorn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charlie Brooker