Charlie Brooker Quotes

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

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

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• 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

• Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Pain
  • Deception
  • Manipulation

• 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

• The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Failure
  • Folly
  • Pigs

• I see good personal financial management as setting - and keeping - a budget.

  

  John Rampton
  • Good
  • Financial
  • Management

• The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Duty
  • Encourage
  • Brave Man

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

  

  Claudio Reyna
  • Game
  • Attention
  • Amazing

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

  

  Charlie Brooker