Charlie Brooker Quotes

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Charlie Brooker

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• I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Born
  • London

• Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Language
  • Connection
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • God
  • Myself
  • Islam

• 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.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Want
  • Smile

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Together
  • Partner

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Place

• The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • Insanity

• 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.').

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Girl
  • Confidence

• Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Freedom
  • Understanding

• Arrancamos a la vida la vida, para con ella, verla.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.

  

  Jessica Anne Newham
  • Music
  • Song
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Life
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Dream
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

  

  James Hillman
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Angel

• The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

  

  Jim Bakker

• We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

  

  Jeff Cooper
  • Long
  • Hurt

• When you can’t climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Home
  • Climb
  • Hole

• When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Money
  • History
  • Play

• To reach a mass audience, you have to offer more than just hostility.

  

  Dave Itzkoff

• Newspapers chiefly exist to spooned the opinions of their readers back to them, much like an arse to mouth hosepipe.

  

  Charlie Brooker