Charlie Brooker Quotes
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat waiters and shop assistants, especially when you are one.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
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If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
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I'm a bit of a control freak.
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Fear attracts attack.
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The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.
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When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
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I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
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Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
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You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat waiters and shop assistants, especially when you are one.
