Charlie Brooker Quotes

There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.

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• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Art
  • True
  • Reality

• All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Nice

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Feeling
  • Band
  • Same

• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  

  Larry Page
  • Believe
  • Business
  • History

• I love Bridget Fonda.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fonda

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Right

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Work
  • History

• I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Forever

• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • You
  • Taught
  • Brainy

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

  

  Big Sean
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Sleep

• I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Happy

• One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • River

• The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Real
  • Evil

• You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the daily grind of doing what these people have to do. And they can never lose their temper, they can never be tired, and they can never slip up, or it's on-camera, and it's everywhere - and it's over.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • People
  • Up
  • Daily

• There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • People
  • Flying