Charlie Brooker Quotes
With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
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I do have an afro. I love my ‘fro … I just feel more comfortable like this. I think it goes more with my personality.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.
