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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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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 have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.
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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.
