Charlie Brooker Quotes
...The result is the most nauseating display of artificial camaraderie since the horrific Doritos 'Friendchips' TV campaign (which caused 50,000 people to kill themselves in 2003, or should have done).
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
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I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.
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I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.
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...The result is the most nauseating display of artificial camaraderie since the horrific Doritos 'Friendchips' TV campaign (which caused 50,000 people to kill themselves in 2003, or should have done).
