Charlie Brooker Quotes
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I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.
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China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
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Arrancamos a la vida la vida, para con ella, verla.
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My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
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Being on tour, it's really easy to stop knowing people that you want to know, because you're not sharing experiences; you're not existing in the minor moments of somebody's life.
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Obviously, Jo and I, as a couple, we just don't want to redline. You know, we don't want to run so hard after some dream or some goal only to find out that we've neglected the thing that means the very most to us, which is our marriage and our relationship.
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The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
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Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
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We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.
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If anyone can be said to embody the American Dream, it's Kim Kardashian West.
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We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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