Charlie Brooker Quotes
Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.'16
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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I went from unknown to having no anonymity.
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It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel.
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To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into 'Starboy' is an honor.
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Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.'16
